On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Kai Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think the area=yes might be the problem. That would presumably put > this information into the mapnik polygon table, but the rendering rules > for admin boundaries seem to only be defined for ways. > > Osmarender presumably just ignores that and renders it anyway. > > To indicate the area, they can be put together again as multipolygon > > Here are some examples of tagging of one of the German admin_level=4 > boundaries: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/29411785 > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/62611 > > I am not sure which is the correct way. But, I am ok if "area=yes" tag is removed.
> Regarding the admin_level question, I would think admin_level=4 for > districts wouldn't be consistent with most other uses of admin_level=4 I > know, as those tend to correspond to states (and treated as such by the > renderers) The admin classification as far as I know was set up to be > level=2 : country, level=4: state, level=6: sub state (district?), > level=8: ... > The main categories tend to jump in 2s to give some room for categories > that don't exist everywhere in the world, but still allow a more or less > consistent tagging through out the world. > > Ok, then I guess admin_level=6 makes sense for DISTRICTS. This will allow admin_level=5 to be used for DIVISIONS if required in the future. If anybody knows how to script these changes, please tell me or go ahead and do it yourself. Otherwise, I will do the scripting myself as soon as I get the time. regards -- Harshad RJ http://hrj.wikidot.com
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