On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 00:05, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> For the rare situation like a "kreisfreie Städte" which can be a
> "city" or a "county, it could make sense to use
> "border_type:de=<designation in German>, or "designation:de="?
>
I have an innate dislike of such countrification on a global map. It's
better than
hijacking tags without adding a country code ("The rest of the world uses
X=Y to mean
Z but in my country X=Y means W"), but only marginally so. The problem
comes when
we add X:de=* and then find it also applies to France, and Italy, so have
to then either
add X:fr and X:it which are synonyms of X:de or persuade mappers in France
and Italy
to use X:de.
>From a very brief examination of what kreisfreie Städte are they seem to
bear some
similarities to the UK's unitary authorities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_authority
If the concepts are substantially the same, then we end up adding
border_type:uk or
using border_type:de in the UK.
I'd prefer a way of handling these that doesn't require country codes.
--
Paul
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