> From a practical point of view different applications such as OSMand take a > snapshot of the database at a point in time. > How would your proposal work with these derivatives and there are quite a few > including the odd one that gets updated once or year or so.
Sorry, I did not understand where is the problem? Use cases, where data is updated now and then are less of a problem as there is less restrictions on time - they can use overlapping borders (for most cases this would be ok), or do border calculation as required for THAT SPECIFIC APP (now it is only possible to get a restricted ONE result which most of the time will not be as required). > Are you suggesting that all applications that use OpenStreetMap data should > be modified to fall in line with your proposal? Those apps, which cannot tolerate overlap, would calculate a diff, calculating the difference is not something very new and challenging. "holes" in polygons are somehow calculated? But this would allow to use OSM data not only by citizens of countries which more or less do not care about "those stupid border disputes". > Yes, sure, by allowing every mapper to map his or her specific > subjective desire how the reality should look like we could eliminate > all disputes. Do you know a country which has a fluctuating representation of its borders say in schoolbooks? Doesn't every country have ONE OFFICIAL claimed border? All borders are verifiable mostly only by checking official documents. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
