Hi folks
We at The Hug are coming to the end of rendering a set of tiles for
Ireland and we came across an odd issue when rendering the border. We
tried to use boundary=administrative plus admin_level=2 as per the
wiki[1][2] but when we rendered using that combination we realized that
there was a problem in that about 75% was so tagged and the rest wasn't.
Some sections were missing both tags, some were missing one.
So I worked my way through all along the border to ensure the entire
border had boundary=administrative plus admin_level=2 so it was both
consistent and tied up with the tagging mandated by the wiki. That both
helped us and, I thought, was making the OSM data more consistent.
I also found that the much of border had a tag boundary_type=nation. We
weren't clear where that came from as it's not mentioned in the wiki but
we were faced with either taking it out of lots of sections or adding it
to less. Preferring to be constructive rather than destructive we opted
for the latter.
I've since had a comment from user SK53 saying that "We're a bit puzzled
by these edits"[3] (I'm not sure who "we" is in this context?) and they
said:
At the very least you need to discuss this with the Irish OSM community
at the talk-ie mailing list.
So here I am. I think my questions are:
1. Are you happy with what I've done?
2. If not then can you explain why some of the border was not
previously tagged boundary=administrative plus admin_level=2 so that
I'm clear why it was done that way?
3. Does anyone know what the story is behind the boundary_type=nation
tagging?
--
Paul
[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary
[2]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level
[3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/47540796
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