Speaking of enclaves: it's fun to see how AND didn't do that small extra effort to include the missing bits of information here: :-p http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.43816923752404&lon=4.92520170283133&zoom=14&layers=B000F000F
And staying in Belgium, I have to give you the Belgian regions and communities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_communities They're all adminstrative divisions, all with their own parliaments, so that would be fun to tag, or to discuss whether regions or communities should have a higher admin_level... Greetings Ben On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tony Bowden wrote: > Robin Paulson wrote: > >> Do you mean that a commune (the lowest level of self government) > >> can be part of more than one unit of each of higher levels? Like > >> this? > > > > yes. some examples: > > i think turkey lies partly in europe, partly in asia? > > There are other examples at even this high a level as well. > > Parts of France are in South America (lots of people are surprised to > find that Brazil has a land border with the EU). Parts of Spain are > in Africa (Melilla, Ceuta, etc). > > And there lots of towns or cities that are in different geographic > countries than administrative ones (Campione and Büsingen are Italian > and German towns in Switzerland, Llívia a Spanish town in France, > etc) > > Usually these are enclaves or exclaves, so slightly easier to deal > with, but we need to constantly remember that the world is a very > tricky thing to model, with large numbers of quirky edge cases. > > Tony _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
