RTFM! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level
Wales/Scotland/England are 4, regions are 5 On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/2/4 Nick Whitelegg <[email protected]>: >>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level > > >> If they aren't counted as national capitals surely it should be 3 anyway, as >> surely England, Wales and Scotland are the *immediate* next level down from >> the UK. > > > I don't know, this is best discussed on talk:uk I guess. It is quite > normal that there is no admin_level=3 btw. In Germany the > "Bundesländer" is admin_level=4 like the regions in Italy. If you are > unsure, you could also have a look at NUTS to make international > comparisons: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics > > They are NUTS1 like the German Länder, while the French Regions are NUTS 2. > > >> A "group 4" entity in the UK would be something like >> "Northern England" > > these are "cultural regions" and not administrative regions, so they > don't belong to any admin_level. > > cheers, > Martin > > BTW: Let's continue on tagging if we do... > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
