<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-05-12 2:44 GMT+02:00 Satoshi IIDA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyampire@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyampire@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">There are some arguments to change "Prefecture" system to "State" system in Japan politics.<br>(yes, it would take long years indeed...)<br><br>If this change would be applied even as partially, we could not keep a way to represent the new systems.<br>

So I'm reserving "admin_level=3" bit to represent "state" level.<br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApY7X6fw8sqxdDNjY1FBeG00TlRZSFoxU2xwOHVCb0E#gid=1" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApY7X6fw8sqxdDNjY1FBeG00TlRZSFoxU2xwOHVCb0E#gid=1</a><br>

<br>In fact, "都道府県" level (like Tokyo, Chiba or so) is so called "prefecture" in Japan.<br>And I think this is a similar structure to "province".<br><br>What is your opinion?</div></blockquote>
</div><br><br><br clear="all">I think it is not needed to put any place tags if you just want to tag administrative divisions. You simply add boundary=administrative, admin_level=*, name=* wikipedia, population etc. to the elements. There is a table for the corresponding legal entities here:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries</a><br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If it is not sufficiently representing your reality, discuss it on the local ML and update the suggested values for Japan.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">cheers,<br>Martin<br></div>
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