2015-11-27 10:54 GMT+01:00 Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > Can you describe some *real problems* the use of "subarea" causes? Can you > provide any *workable* alternative for the parties which DO support its > use? I thought that the "O" stood for "Open". Mappers who don't know about > it just carry on.
the real problem (for me and other mappers in the Italian community) are people coming by and adding all regions of Italy as subregions into the country boundaries, continueing adding all municipalities (or better most of them) into the region relations. This results in many common tools selecting all contained municipalities when selecting the country and the geometry it depends on (members). In Italy we don't have the problem of unprecise sub-boundaries which are not integrated in the upper boundaries. It makes editing of these relations much more complicated for everyone if all sub-boundaries/entities which are not needed for the boundary of the country, are included as well. Workable alternatives for which problem do you require? Is it that subareas are not completely spatially contained in the parent area in OSM but are in the real world? Then the solution is to fix these sub-boundaries. If instead the subareas aren't completely contained in the parent area in the real world, then I'd question the subarea-role for these cases (they are not subareas). Cheers, Martin
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