On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
Based on which uses of admin_level=3? A quick scan of the wiki shows
I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly different
than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries). For one
thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their existence
from a higher government (even though most of them were created by
On 11/24/14 9:44 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
Based on which uses of
On 11/24/2014 5:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be
more consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
admin_level=4 is consistent with Canada and Australia at the very least.
I believe it's also consistent
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jack Burke burke...@gmail.com wrote:
I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly
different than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries).
For one thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their
2014-11-24 18:05 GMT+01:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
...and German states and Swiss cantons are admin_level=4 according to the
previously-linked page.
yes, I am coming from a German-Italian perspective, where Italian regions
are clearly less sovereign than German states,
And the England/Wales and /Scotland borders are all 4, too. If we're trying to
reflect geopolitical status, these should absolutely be different than
provinces. OTOH, if we're just interested in drawing pretty lines
-jack
On November 24, 2014 12:55:04 PM EST, Martin Koppenhoefer
On 2014-11-24 05:00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
IIRC mappers in many regions of the world started out using
even-numbered admin_levels only, skipping the
Hi all, first time post here (hope I'm doing everything right.)
There's an interesting article at Gizmodo about erasing the Hollywood sign
from Google Maps, Bing Maps, Apple Maps etc -- people who live on roads
nearby were complaining about hikers and tourists, and they got the LA City
Council,
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Tod Fitch t...@fitchdesign.com wrote:
Nice to see they are using OSM but it would be nicer to see it clearly
labeled as using data from OSM.
Rand McNally fixed their attribution, but it seem weak. The response Ryan
Walker from Rand McNally gave to my inquiry
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