Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 16:55, stevea wrote: > On Nov 29, 2021, at 10:39 PM, Ewen Hill wrote: > > Indigenous nations/country > > I have a strong belief that we should allocate an entry around level > three to six for indigenous country. There will be discussion on fuzziness > of boundaries and

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

On Nov 29, 2021, at 10:39 PM, Ewen Hill wrote: > Indigenous nations/country > I have a strong belief that we should allocate an entry around level three to > six for indigenous country. There will be discussion on fuzziness of > boundaries and ownership, a number of these have been resolved

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

Hi all, A great discussion and can I thank Dian for raising this. *Postcodes* As well as SteveA's comments, postcode boundaries are proprietary and Auspost are never going to sign a waiver or have it as an open source service and no, I don't really understand this logic. The best you can get is

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

I will and do (cautiously, as an "outsider" from the USA, but as an "insider" being one who seriously coordinated the USA [1] getting our 4-10 admin_level table(s) [2] about as hammered-into-submission-and-consensus as is humanly OSM-possible, over months and years and sweat and tears) say one

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 09:29, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Suburbs and Localities in Australia are all using admin_level=10 > , > and some changes in early 2020 to the default map rendering (

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

> Regardless of the outcome of this discussion, thanks for all your work Dian > to change the “towns” back to suburbs. I downloaded a copy of the Victorian > place names data a little while ago for a GIS exercise and it was a real pain > to discover that an enormous number of purported towns