On Wednesday 14 October 2015, Colin Smale wrote: > Boundaries are often downloadable from authoritative sources. The > downloadable data is however not always the legal definition of the > boundary, but derived from that definition [...]
A large fraction of 'authorative' sources of boundary data have very little to do with the legal/contractual definition of the boundary. I would probably go as far as saying the most inaccurate boundaries in OSM come from authorative sources. > > The boundary is where the government says it is... Not in OSM - see the 'on the ground rule'. For OSM the boundary is what locals treat as the boundary. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
