1. place=district makes sense. We should change this.
Great, have updated the wiki -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries#Administrative_divisions
and will change the values from county to district.
2. Looking at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative it
seems like admin_level=6 is a popular choice for a district level unit
in the other big countries, larger than India. Its a good idea to use
6 for consistency. And it allows use to use the 5 slot for the zonal
councils.
Right, admin_level=6 seems better for districts than 5. But how do we
take care of districts that are already tagged with 5? As most of the
districts have already been tagged 5 -
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/keys/admin_level#values, should we mass
replace them with 6 if the consensus is in favor of this here?
And also values like A & A1 are used in combination with railway=station
tag - http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/eWQ. Don't know what do these values
indicate in an administration boundary and relate to railway stations.
thanks,
yogi
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yogesh K S <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Currently I see that we have tagged most of the Indian
districts(more than 300) with place=county[1] but this tag is
mainly used on nodes rather than on administrative boundaries ways
that are tagged with boundary=administrative.[2] But we have added
administrative boundaries for all districts in India[3] and
haven't tagged with place tags. And also we have used
admin_level=5 for all district boundaries but the wiki shows
admin_level=6 for district boundaries.[4]
Request the community to comment or provide suggestions on -
1. Whether to use place=district instead of place=county since
we refer them as districts on the ground in India.[2]
2. Whether to update the India wiki page to avoid confusion on
using admin_level=5 for districts considering we haven't added
revenue division boundaries[4].
[1]taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/place=county
<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/place=county>
[2]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Administratively_declared_places
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_India
[4]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries#Administrative_divisions
cheers,
yogi
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