On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 14:26 +0100, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: > I've always thought that England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland > forming the UK are pretty similar to the 50 states forming the USA - I > think it would be reasonable to use the same markings on the default map > to divide them. > > Legal purists may want different (or extra) tags in the database on the > grounds that it's a completely different situation, but they could be > rendered the same.
For all purposes, this is probably reasonably accurate apart from the fact that one "state" has no devolution, 2 have devolution and one has further devolution. For the purposes of a map, the precise nature of the powers of each part are negligible. I suppose technically the USA is similar as each state has different powers available to them (or I think they do). -- Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
