Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-08-02 Thread Jarek Piórkowski
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 07:56, Alan Mackie wrote: > On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 20:21, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: >> > On 1. Aug 2020, at 17:20, Alan Mackie wrote: >> > I don't know how I'd map this. Do you have to pass through border >> > checkpoints when you enter or leave the area? >> >> around

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-08-02 Thread Alan Mackie
On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 20:21, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > On 1. Aug 2020, at 17:20, Alan Mackie wrote: > > > > I don't know how I'd map this. Do you have to pass through border > checkpoints when you enter or leave the area? > > > around here, no, but neither are there border checkpoints at

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-08-01 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 1. Aug 2020, at 17:20, Alan Mackie wrote: > > I don't know how I'd map this. Do you have to pass through border checkpoints > when you enter or leave the area? around here, no, but neither are there border checkpoints at the border of the main territory, you just

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-08-01 Thread Alan Mackie
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 19:56, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:07 PM Alan Mackie wrote: > >> Many if not most of the entities mentioned in this discussion as being >> candidates for "admin level above country" do have geographic reach >> encompassing multiple countries, but are

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-31 Thread Kevin Kenny
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:07 PM Alan Mackie wrote: > Many if not most of the entities mentioned in this discussion as being > candidates for "admin level above country" do have geographic reach > encompassing multiple countries, but are also limited in scope, often > severely. To tag such a

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 19:59, Phake Nick wrote: > > > 在 2020年7月31日週五 00:24,Alan Mackie 寫道: > >> >> >> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 16:38, Martin Koppenhoefer >> wrote: >> >>> Am Do., 30. Juli 2020 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Alan Mackie < >>> aamac...@gmail.com>: >>> This is why I suggested that the

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Phake Nick
在 2020年7月31日週五 00:24,Alan Mackie 寫道: > > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 16:38, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > >> Am Do., 30. Juli 2020 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Alan Mackie < >> aamac...@gmail.com>: >> >>> This is why I suggested that the more practical solution would probably >>> be to re-tag all

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Niels Elgaard Larsen
Martin Koppenhoefer: > > > sent from a phone > >> On 30. Jul 2020, at 14:04, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> >> To me as a citizen of a EU country it does not feel like the EU is a >> higher-level administrative body than the country. Yes, countries have >> decided to contractually transfer some

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 16:38, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am Do., 30. Juli 2020 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Alan Mackie >: > >> This is why I suggested that the more practical solution would probably >> be to re-tag all existing admin_level=2 with admin_level=1 except for the >> EU ones as there are

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
30 Jul 2020, 14:33 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: > > On 2020-07-30 14:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: >> >>> The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes >>> of a governmental administrative body - with the executive,

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am Do., 30. Juli 2020 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Alan Mackie : > This is why I suggested that the more practical solution would probably be > to re-tag all existing admin_level=2 with admin_level=1 except for the EU > ones as there are far fewer elements to be updated. Arbitrarily deciding > that the

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 15:02, Colin Smale wrote: > On 2020-07-30 15:05, Alan Mackie wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:35, Colin Smale wrote: > >> On 2020-07-30 14:02, Frederik Ramm wrote:You might not like it, but the >> EU is already a super-state that acts as one, with a federation of

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-30 15:05, Alan Mackie wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:35, Colin Smale wrote: > >> On 2020-07-30 14:02, Frederik Ramm wrote:You might not like it, but the EU >> is already a super-state that acts as one, with a federation of states >> below. I know the whole idea of a "United

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 14:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 30. Jul 2020, at 14:41, Alan Mackie wrote: > > > > To me pooling resources does not generate a higher level entity, it > rearranges existing ones. If the EU does become the "final decider" across > all

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 30. Jul 2020, at 14:41, Alan Mackie wrote: > > To me pooling resources does not generate a higher level entity, it > rearranges existing ones. If the EU does become the "final decider" across > all branches of government, then to me it becomes the admin_level=2 entity

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 30. Jul 2020, at 14:04, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > To me as a citizen of a EU country it does not feel like the EU is a > higher-level administrative body than the country. Yes, countries have > decided to contractually transfer some rights and responsibilities to > the

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:35, Colin Smale wrote: > On 2020-07-30 14:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > Hi, > > On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: > > The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes > of a governmental administrative body - with the executive, parliament > and

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 13:05, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: > > The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes > > of a governmental administrative body - with the executive, parliament > > and justicial branches impacting citizens

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-30 14:02, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: > >> The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes >> of a governmental administrative body - with the executive, parliament >> and justicial branches impacting citizens directly.

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Sören alias Valor Naram
age Subject: Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?From: Frederik Ramm To: tagging@openstreetmap.orgCC: Hi,On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote:> The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes> of a governmental administrative body - with the

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 30.07.20 13:32, Colin Smale wrote: > The EU is «composed-of» whole member states. It has all the attributes > of a governmental administrative body - with the executive, parliament > and justicial branches impacting citizens directly. To me as a citizen of a EU country it does not feel

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Alan Mackie
IMO the logic behind putting the EU as admin_level=1 would have meant that the United States of America, the USSR and Australia would have been made admin_level=1 when they were formed from their preceding entities (if OSM had existed at those times). I would suggest that contrary to the

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 30.07.20 11:19, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > Unlike such objects EU has (AFAIK) well defined border, matching > existing administrative boundaries, so problems inherent in > mapping fuzzy objects are not present. I'm not an expert on international treaties but I believe that if

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
Jul 30, 2020, 09:44 by frede...@remote.org: > in my view, the EU is not an administrative body with a border and many > parts (countries), but instead the countries have made a contract to > form the EU. > EU is in a weird state where it is sort of organization of countries sort of

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Rory McCann
On 30/07/2020 09:44, Frederik Ramm wrote: in my view, the EU is not an administrative body with a border and many parts (countries), but instead the countries have made a contract to form the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon gave the EU it's own “legal personality”, so the EU, as a body itself is now

Re: [Tagging] Should admin_level=1 tag be applied to EU?

2020-07-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, in my view, the EU is not an administrative body with a border and many parts (countries), but instead the countries have made a contract to form the EU. I would therefore object to mapping the EU as an entity with a boundary; instead, if it were mapped, I would expect it to be a relation of