2008/5/29 Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dermot McNally wrote: > >> 2008/5/29 Steve Chilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Scotland and Wales are countries. >> >> Only in the same traditional folk-consciousness way that Bavaria or >> Hessen are. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom > > thinks it's a bit more than that.
On the contrary - certainly in the case of Bavaria, which really was a country until 1918. But we've neatly illustrated the point. Non-Germans don't see why Bavaria would see itself as a country, even though it does. Non-British people (and, it seems, half of England) don't as a rule regard Scotland or Wales as countries on a par with, say, France. And as an Irish person, I've encountered my share of people who don't think my country is a real one either. But the clue here is that we're discussing the appropriate use of boundary tagging, specifically a thing we call admin_level. I guess none of us will disagree that Germany and the UK get to exercise a higher level of administration than a "country" like England or Wales? Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
