Please explain why admin_level on place nodes harms the database, or
refrain from removing it. Thanks.
I actually put it back in Berlin after I took a 2nd closer look at
Germany. Which then actually revealed that all our state capitals are
tagged with admin_level=6 when they should be 4 as far as i understand
if you tag them at all...
Which then actually made me rethink and discover a possible problem when
tagging the node.
If you tag Berlin admin_level=2 do you assume it also holds
admin_level=4? 6? (Then you realize that with Berlin you actually have a
special situation, because it is a city state. But that wasn't even what
I was going for.)
Now let's say things in Germany would have went a bit different 20 years
ago...
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_on_the_Capital_of_Germany).
Bonn would have become the capital of Germany not Berlin. Now I tag Bonn
with admin_level=2. The problem is that Bonn is located in North
Rhine-Westphalia whose capital is Düsseldorf. So how do I now know that
Bonn isn't the capital of NRW? Do I have to tag other capitals with
admin_level=2,4 in order to show that they are country and state
capitals and admin_level=2 only stands for country capital? Am I going
to have to tag nodes with admin_level=2,4,5,6,8... in order to be able
to tag e.g. Bonn as admin_level=2,5,6,8...? (Germany has no lvl 3)
Because there is no "exclude" option.
Andi
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