As far as I can tell, the reason Quebec City is tagged as admin_level=4 is because it’s the capital of the province. As per your linked wiki page, provinces are admin_level=4. For any old non-capital city, they should be tagged admin_level=8. Keep in mind that admin_level=* is primarily intended for use on boundary ways and relations, not the place=* node. The usage of admin_level=*and capital=* on city nodes is part of a proposed feature covering capitals (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/capital). Contrary to what that proposal outlines, the common usage according to Taginfo (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/capital#values) seems to be that capitals are tagged as capital=[admin level number] (ie. Quebec City would be tagged capital=4).
Andrew Lester Victoria, BC From: Bruno Remy [mailto:bremy.qc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:44 AM To: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Talk-ca] admin_level of canadian cities hi, What do you suggest for "admin_level" of canadian cities, because i noticed difference between the official Canadian recommendation on Openstreetmap wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries) witch is suggesting LEVEL 8 ... whereas you can check LEVEL 4 for big cities in Canada on Opensstreetmap (Quebec City as instance...) So ... do we adjust our admin_level according to the canadian section of openstreetmap's wiki? Or do you suggest to keep on tracks on LEVEL 8 usage... and why? -- Bruno Remy
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