> This strand of the discussion (below) though echoes the earlier thread I > kicked off (but gave up pursuing because there seemed to be more prejudice > than logic in the discussion) about the idea of numerically-based properties > in the database mapped to human-friendly language in editors and viewers.
OMG is your brain mush? This whole nonsense is over what admin_level (a numerical tagging scheme) maps to. It's the perfect example of why numbering the bloomin tags doesn't necessarily actually solve anything. It's also the perfect example of how a global numbering system is utterly irrelevant given our ability to invent domain and ordering specific ones on a whim. > Most of that discussion was about highways but similar arguments seem to > apply to boundaries. I think most British mappers would be happier selecting > from a boundary sub-menu of 'National', 'County', 'District', 'parish', with > each choice invisibly mapped back to the appropriate numerical boundary type > than with the clumsy 'boundary=administrative' 'admin_level=4' approach. Yes, I'm sure they would rather pick from such a menu. Mapping to the relevant boundary and admin_level tags should be trivial as the wiki page manages it. I'm sure implementations are welcome. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
