On 2020-01-27 13:59, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Mo., 27. Jan. 2020 um 13:11 Uhr schrieb Colin Smale
> :
>
>> OSM clearly associates coastline with high water:
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline
>>
>> If the admin boundaries are very close, or even coincident with high
Am Mo., 27. Jan. 2020 um 13:11 Uhr schrieb Colin Smale <
colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>:
> OSM clearly associates coastline with high water:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline
>
> If the admin boundaries are very close, or even coincident with high
> water, I would expect two ways in OSM,
On 2020-01-27 12:43, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Mo., 27. Jan. 2020 um 11:21 Uhr schrieb Colin Smale
> :
>
>> However, practically this leeds to ambiguous situations, where for example
>> admin_level=4 is added to islands and might be misinterpreted as
>> administrative "standalone" level
> I would not want to request to be able to distinguish high and low water in
> order to be able to map administrative boundaries
But since the administrative boundary is defined by the "Baseline" or
low water springs tide line, that's what should be mapped. Certainly
it is incorrect to add the
Am Mo., 27. Jan. 2020 um 11:21 Uhr schrieb Colin Smale <
colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>:
However, practically this leeds to ambiguous situations, where for example
admin_level=4 is added to islands and might be misinterpreted as
administrative "standalone" level 4 entities (with the island name etc.).
27 Jan 2020, 11:43 by dieterdre...@gmail.com:
> I wonder what is the current state of admin_level on ways
>
Personally I consider this to be a
pointless duplication of data.
I am not fan of requesting from mappers
doing work that is easy to automate.
> in particular with respect to osm-carto.
On 2020-01-27 10:43, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> I wonder what is the current state of admin_level on ways, in particular with
> respect to osm-carto. Historically, the recommendation was to add the lowest
> admin_level additionally to the ways that are part of admin relations (to
> help
I wonder what is the current state of admin_level on ways, in particular
with respect to osm-carto. Historically, the recommendation was to add the
lowest admin_level additionally to the ways that are part of admin
relations (to help applications that render boundaries based on ways, for
examples
