I surely could remove the warning I've added to the wiki, but please first consider that, from the ~330000 nodes with a place=* tag that you mentioned, only 63762 (19%) are combined with an admin_level tag. I've mentioned [1] many of important cities (in fact, secondary, tertiary cities, right next to the capital city in a listing sorted by population) that do not have the admin_level tag.
I'm being neutral in this debate, the only thing I care about is coming up with a reasonable recommendation for the Brazilian community. Add - and why - or not add - and why not. [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-May/017506.html On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Ilya Zverev <zve...@textual.ru> wrote: > Martin Koppenhoefer: > >> admin_level has no real "definition" in the wiki what it is supposed to >> express: the key link redirects to boundary=administrative: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level >> >> ... >> >> Now there is also a key "capital" that can tell the administrative >> importance for a place (it will contain the admin_level of the highest >> administrative entity (=lowest admin level number) for which a place is the >> administration centre), so no real need to have an admin_level with >> duplicating values on these places as well. I think capital is a better key >> for places then "admin_level", as any place will "have" lots of >> admin_levels (e.g. 2 when it is inside a country) so semantically it >> doesn't make a lot of sense. > > First, this discussion it seemed was about removing admin_level tags, > and not straightening up the tagging schema. I posted my reply because > I had seen the tag removed from Berlin, not replaced by another. Left > there is capital=yes tag, which is sometimes used along with > admin_level=* ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:capital ). > > Having one tag instead of two to look at for admin_level value would > be nice, but that should invoke some kind of a proposal (like when we > [almost] bulk-replaced all building=entrance with entrance=yes). I'll > support this decision no matter to which tag it comes to, capital or > admin_level. But please, for now do not remove existing tags and do > not put warnings in the wiki to not do something without providing > a good alternative. > > > IZ > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- Fernando Trebien +55 (51) 9962-5409 "Nullius in verba." _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
