The regional development agencies have quite big budgets, actually. But I'd agree that "England" needs to have it's own level.
Richard On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> wrote: > Igor Brejc <igor.brejc <at> gmail.com> writes: > > >For days now I've been trying to figure out how I could render borders > >between England, Wales and Scotland using OSM data, > > > 1. Borders between these countries are tagged with the same > > admin_level=4 as that of subdivisions inside England (example: > > North East England, http://osm.org/go/evykef-?relation=151164). > > Now I'm not a constitutional expert, but I think Wales and > > Scotland represent different level of territorial division than > > just a collection of England's counties. > > Agreed. These English regions are largely spurious (they have some kind > of 'development agency' with a small budget, but no real political > existence or power) and certainly not equivalent to the border between > England and Scotland or between federal states in countries like the USA > or Germany. They look very odd on the main slippy map. > > I propose to just retag them as anything other than admin_level=4, any > objections? > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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