On Thursday 29 May 2008 12:29:05 Dermot McNally wrote: > I've just fixed the Irish border, which luckily presents no such > dilemma, as it is an international border, even by non-UK criteria. It > lacked admin_level=2.
Shouldn't that be admin_level=1 now, since it is also the outside border of the UK. Now that admin_level=2 is used for the internal borders in the UK we would need a higher number for the outside borders. - - - - - - - - - - All kidding aside I thought that the use of numbers for the admin levels was to avoid discussions like this. But clearly tagging for the renderers has won again over good data structure. admin_level=1 is reserved for future use. admin_level=2 is to be used for the highest level of sovereignty. Since neither the UN nor the EU can be called sovereignties, that would be the UK anywhere within the UK. admin_level=4 is used for most major internal divisions (e.g. US states and German Bundesländer) If you really think (which people in the UK obviously do) that Scotland and Wales are more "independent" than the parts of the US and Germany then you could use admin_level=3 in stead. Then if you want to render a map that shows Scotland as a nation state, you could use the same linestyle for admin_level=2 and admin_level=3. If you are of the opposite opinion you could choose to do the same with admin_level=3 and admin_level=4. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
