Hi, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 09:44:55AM +0900, Satoshi IIDA wrote: > > place=county instead of place=district > This is reasonable & possible. > But, as I'm not a native speaker, I could not understand the correct nuance > of 2 words. :) > > Is County a better word to represent that "A municipality unit which is > larger than City/Town/Village, and smaller than State/Province"?
Yes, place=county fits that description. place=district is a rare tag, only 105 uses so far, see http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/place=district It look s like it is used mostly for city districts or suburbs. > > place=state instead of place=province > Hence, I think this is not... > > There are some arguments to change "Prefecture" system to "State" system in > Japan politics. > (yes, it would take long years indeed...) > > If this change would be applied even as partially, we could not keep a way > to represent the new systems. > So I'm reserving "admin_level=3" bit to represent "state" level. > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApY7X6fw8sqxdDNjY1FBeG00TlRZSFoxU2xwOHVCb0E#gid=1 > > In fact, "ι½ιεΊη" level (like Tokyo, Chiba or so) is so called "prefecture" > in Japan. > And I think this is a similar structure to "province". > > What is your opinion? I see, thanks for explaining that. If you need to keep place=state reserved then it makes sense to stay with place=province. Another small point about adding the place nodes to the boundary relations: using the mebmer role 'label' might be more appropriate for most cases. The 'admin_centre' role should be used for the city/town/etc. where the government for the administrative unit resides, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary Regards Sarah _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
