<div dir="ltr">I prefer designation=* since it it already a widely used tag that fits the intended purpose of the proposed admin_title=* tag. The question on whether the value should be human-readable or machine-readable can be solved by using correspondence tables to link the two. Barring such a table, I don't see a catastrophic problem in automatically converting "civil_parish" to "Civil Parish" and vice versa, to use the example in the talk page.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Friedrich Volkmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsd@volki.at" target="_blank">bsd@volki.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 17.12.2014 16:25, I wrote:<br>
> This is about a new attribute for administrative devisions.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/admin_title" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/admin_title</a><br>
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So far there were 3 alternative suggestions, which all have their drawbacks:<br>
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1) official_status: It remains unclear what the prefix means (country code?<br>
language code?) and why it is needed, see my entry from 29 December 2014<br>
17:33 on the talk page.<br>
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2) designation: contains machine readable values instead of human readable<br>
values, see my entry from 23 December 2014 12:51 on the talk page. A<br>
proposal with machine readable values was already voted down<br>
(<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Designation" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Designation</a>).<br>
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3) admin_centre role: I don't see that purpose documented anywhere, and it<br>
does not work for all countries, see Zverik's entry from 18 December 2014<br>
15:21 on the talk page.<br>
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There's no more activity on the talk page, nor is here, so the only way to<br>
get this issue forward is by starting the voting phase, which is what I am<br>
doing now. Anyone who still prefers one of the alternatives will hopefully<br>
come out of the woodwork and append to the discussion.<br>
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Friedrich K. Volkmann <a href="http://www.volki.at/" target="_blank">http://www.volki.at/</a><br>
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