Hi, On 11.07.2017 22:31, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote: >> The only reason to have an admin level 4 boundary inside a state, would >> be if there was somehow a piece of *federal* territory inside the state. >> Only then would the state have a "hole" in it that would be tagged with >> admin level 4! An area inside the state that is state-governed because >> of a lack of admin_level 5+ entity does not need its own boundary. It is >> defined by the boundaries of the admin_level 5+ entities that surround it. > > OK, I'll take your word for it. But I ask you to please further clarify that > in that first case (where you say *federal*): is it more correct to say > "anything above state?"
Yes, if there were something at admin_level 3 then of course the area where a hole was punched into the admin_level 4 area (*or* a gap between neihgbouring admin_level 4 areas!) would be assumed to be governed by that admin_level 3 body. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
