I can't speak to the other countries you mention, but Japan's prefectures
are the equivalent of US states, and both are admin_level 4. The
Japanese states (doshusei) listed for admin_level 3 on the wiki page seem
to be some sort of experiment in regional administration. More info in
English here:
2014-11-25 10:59 GMT+01:00 Sarah Hoffmann lon...@denofr.de:
admin_levels have been invented in order that different borders can be
rendered consistently among countries according to the wiki[1].
+1, that's also what I am after.
That's
also what I remember. State eqivalent doesn't mean
2014-11-24 21:18 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us:
Assuming this table reflects the actual state of the map, most countries
have chosen 4 for their state equivalents.
Actually, many countries do not have something like a state equivalent,
it is a particularity of the USA
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:29:25AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2014-11-24 21:18 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us:
Assuming this table reflects the actual state of the map, most countries
have chosen 4 for their state equivalents.
Actually, many countries do
On 2014-11-25 01:29, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2014-11-24 21:18 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen
m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
mailto:m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us:
Assuming this table reflects the actual state of the map, most
countries have chosen 4 for their state equivalents.
Actually, many
On 11/25/14 5:24 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
Incidentally, [1] is silent on the question of Indian reservations, a
topic that has come up periodically on this list. Is there any
consensus on how to tag them? If so, it should be reflected in the table.
i'm not aware of any consensus beyond indian
Here is the most recent thread on the tagging list about Indian
reservations:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html
Neither of the proposals mentioned in the thread advocates using admin_level
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Richard Welty
On 2014-11-25 06:54, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
Here is the most recent thread on the tagging list about Indian
reservations:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2014-November/020160.html
Neither of the proposals mentioned in the thread advocates using admin_level
Thanks. I've
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
Based on which uses of admin_level=3? A quick scan of the wiki shows
I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly different
than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries). For one
thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their existence
from a higher government (even though most of them were created by
On 11/24/14 9:44 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
Based on which uses of
On 11/24/2014 5:00 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be
more consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
admin_level=4 is consistent with Canada and Australia at the very least.
I believe it's also consistent
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jack Burke burke...@gmail.com wrote:
I would point out that the legal status of U.S. States is slightly
different than that of provinces (and likely of states in other countries).
For one thing, U.S. States exist in their own right and do not drive their
2014-11-24 18:05 GMT+01:00 Brad Neuhauser brad.neuhau...@gmail.com:
...and German states and Swiss cantons are admin_level=4 according to the
previously-linked page.
yes, I am coming from a German-Italian perspective, where Italian regions
are clearly less sovereign than German states,
And the England/Wales and /Scotland borders are all 4, too. If we're trying to
reflect geopolitical status, these should absolutely be different than
provinces. OTOH, if we're just interested in drawing pretty lines
-jack
On November 24, 2014 12:55:04 PM EST, Martin Koppenhoefer
On 2014-11-24 05:00, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I wonder why US States are tagged as admin_level=4, wouldn't it be more
consistent with the rest of the map to have them tagged as level 3?
IIRC mappers in many regions of the world started out using
even-numbered admin_levels only, skipping the
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