Time Zone Boundaries

All of them? Even the ones that cannot be expressed by administrative boundaries but yet are verifiable on the ground?

My understanding is that OSM doesn’t strictly need a giant boundary relation for every time zone, because Timezone Boundary Builder can generate them from a combination of time zone boundaries and administrative boundaries.

In any case, now that OpenHistoricalMap has imported a comprehensive dataset of historical U.S. county boundaries, I guess we can look into mapping the U.S. timezone boundaries there using the county boundaries as a foundation, and also investigate doing something similar for the rest of the world, so that tz database users will continue to have access to useful boundary data. This could be a positive outcome, since the tz database also keeps track of historical changes to time zones that would be out of scope for OSM but well within scope for OHM.

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