On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Cartinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For another less obvious example closer to Martijn van Oosterhout: > A Dutch "waterschap" is an administrative level that resorts directly below > the national government. Several of them straddle provincial boundaries. In > the Netherlands this problem is solved on most maps by just ignoring > the "waterschap" boundaries, because most people ignore the "waterschappen" > anyway. There is however no reason not to put them in the openstreetmap > database (if we can get the data).
Most people ignore them because they are irrevelent to most people. They make no laws, have no jurisdiction. In that sense they're more like postcode boundaries: a fairly arbitrary division of area for the purposes of optimising some process. Another example would be the area covered by a power substation or gas distribution node. These are well-defined areas, but not interesting to people directly. That isn't to say these boundaries shouldn't be in OSM. It would be interesting to have the local zones associated with schools in AU, for example. I'm just not sure admin_level is the right tag for this. But then, I don't have any other suggestion for tags either. I was kinda assuming that admin_level would only be for legal administrative boundaries, not so much any arbitrary boundary. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk