On 18.12.2014 16:44, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > In Berlin there is no such thing like a "Gemeinde" there are the "Bezirke" > divided into "Ortsteile", and while the first do correspond roughly to > Landkreisen (regarding the number of inhabitants) they don't have the power > (they are indeed not even "Kommunen", the term is > "Selbstverwaltungseinheiten Berlins ohne Rechtspersönlichkeit"). > Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen are also called "Stadtstaat". Between the > "Gemeinde" and the "Land" there is typically the "Landkreis" or "Kreisfreie > Stadt" (and in some cases the "Regierungsbezirk"), have a look at this > illustration for an overview of the German administrative system: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Administrative_Gliederung_Deutschlands.svg
Whatever. I am sure that there is some correct name of the administrative division type. It is up to the german community to find out. > Looking at Berlin in OSM, I have also found this tag which seems to have the > same intentions as your proposal and is used more than 50k times: > name:prefix="Land und Kreisfreie Stadt" > http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/name%3Aprefix This has some serious drawbacks, see the rationale in my proposal. That's why I started the proposal in the first place. -- Friedrich K. Volkmann http://www.volki.at/ Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
