Hi Rafael,

thanks for your feedback.

Am 29.12.2017 um 06:22 schrieb Rafael Avila Coya:
Hi, Johannes:

Thank you for this work.

I have just small questions about the import.

I am not swiss, so I am not going to doubt that suburbs don't have administrative significance, as you say in the wiki. But a bit further down in the wiki you say "We will not import the neighborhoods ("Wohnbezirke"), as some of their names are not familiar to the general public, but seem to exist for administrative statistical purposes only."

So my understanding is that neighborhoods have some administrative use, and so I find it a bit strange that suburbs, that are higher level than neighborhoods, don't have any administrative interest (not even statistical).

Both are used for statistical purposes by the administration, the suburbs even more so. However, there exist no political institutions for suburbs/neighborhoods (at least not consistently), that was the main argument on the Swiss mailing list. But maybe we over-interpret the term "administrative" here, it does not read "political" after all.

@Simon, what do you think?
In Bern, we have admin_levels both 9 and 10. Okay, for 9, there exist "Quartierkommissionen" as political institutions (except for the inner city), but I don't know any political institution for admin_level 10 (e.g. Breitenrain).

Also, in the boundary=administrative wiki [1] it gives admin_level=10 for neighborhoods in Switzerland, so it might be admin_level=9 or so according to the wiki?

Sure, admin_level=9 would be the perfect fit.

In case of continuing with that tagging, I guess the suburb segments should have a boundary=suburb tag (they come with no tags in the osm file you share).

True, I forgot that. However, the suburbs share many segments with higher-level administrative boundaries, should those then have the tag twice, or two semicolon-separated values for the key? One more argument for using boundary=administrative, it seems.

boundary=suburb, as a new tag, should be documented in the OSM wiki, in case it's finally decided to continue with that tagging schema.

Well, it says " All commonly used values according to Taginfo" there, and "suburb" is used in other places already. "statistical" would be an alternative that is used even more often already.

Overall, the simplest would be to just use boundary=administrative instead of boundary/place=suburb.

Another argument against place/boundary=suburb is that the suburbs do not appear in address searches, e.g. "Terwijde" does not appear for this search:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=oskar%20nedbalhof#map=19/52.10646/5.03946&layers=N

Johannes

Cheers, and have an excellent end of the year,

Rafael.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative

On 28/12/17 14:42, Johannes Singler wrote:
Hi everyone,

after discussing this on the Swiss OSM mailing list (talk-ch), I hereby announce the import of the suburbs of the city of Basel in Switzerland. The one-time import is manual and comprises 19 suburbs.  It touches three country borders, though.

The import wiki page can be found here:
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/City_of_Basel_Suburb_Import>

I'm a local mapper living in the area.

Looking forward to your comments,
Johannes

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