On 29 May 2008, at 11:41, Dermot McNally wrote: > 2008/5/29 Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Dermot McNally wrote: >> >>> 2008/5/29 Steve Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> Scotland and Wales are countries. >>> >>> Only in the same traditional folk-consciousness way that Bavaria or >>> Hessen are. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom >> >> thinks it's a bit more than that. > > On the contrary - certainly in the case of Bavaria, which really was a > country until 1918. But we've neatly illustrated the point. > Non-Germans don't see why Bavaria would see itself as a country, even > though it does. Non-British people (and, it seems, half of England) > don't as a rule regard Scotland or Wales as countries on a par with, > say, France. And as an Irish person, I've encountered my share of > people who don't think my country is a real one either. >
Seemingly a lot of people seem to regard the UK as England. It's not the first time someone's asked me what it's like in England. Until about 6 weeks ago I was unable to tell them because I had never lived in England until then. Shaun > But the clue here is that we're discussing the appropriate use of > boundary tagging, specifically a thing we call admin_level. I guess > none of us will disagree that Germany and the UK get to exercise a > higher level of administration than a "country" like England or Wales? > > Dermot > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Iren sind menschlich > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
