Lester Caine wrote: > > Personally I've been viewing admin_level=0 as the world. > admin_level=1 should equal the continents > admin_level=2 for countries ( UNITED KINGDOM ) > admin_level=3 ( or so ) for states/areas ( ENGLAND )
It seems like level 4 is already used as you describe for level 3. > Only niggle with this is 'European Union' - does that class as a continent or > do we add floating point as suggested and have 1.5. Not all countries in > europe are in the European Union, but EU is certainly an administrative area? > So perhaps THAT should be level 2 for Europe with countries at level 3. That doesn't fit at all with the use of level 2 described on the wiki... > I don't think that the level structure was eve actually agreed - and now it's > biting back? I think it was put in place to avoid discussion about what to name the levels. In that it has been quite successful. I think that discussion would still be underway and no one would be happy, if we'd tried to use names for the values instead. -Alex Mauer "hawke" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk