<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A few months ago, someone enabled admin level 3 on regional boundaries in Japan. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is an error, but I don’t know how to deal with it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Admin level 3 boundaries are reserved for future for “states” of Japan. The regions currently have historical names, but just like “So-cal” or “New England” in the US, they are popular but administratively meaningless names, so they are not supposed to be used for any admin level. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Japan has prefectures (provinces) - which are admin level 4, and are currently the highest order political boundaries in Japan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan</a></div><div class="">("Japan's 47 prefectures form the country's first jurisdiction and administrative division levels.”)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Someone outside of Japan came along and changed it, even through it is against the information provided on the OSM wiki for Japan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging#Boundary" class="">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Japan_tagging#Boundary</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Japan is currently debating the creation of states by combining the tiny prefectures (probably in the next 20 years, as the population shrinks outside Tokyo) - but nothing is decided yet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.clair.or.jp/j/forum/honyaku/hikaku/pdf/up-to-date_en3.pdf" class="">http://www.clair.or.jp/j/forum/honyaku/hikaku/pdf/up-to-date_en3.pdf</a> (scroll to the end for maps)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Japan is the same size as California, and California has about the same number of counties as Japan has prefectures. They are really small. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am very uncomfortable changing admin settings for a whole country,and have never used the boundary tag, so I’m asking someone to go and remove the admin level 3 tags from the regions. It presents political boundaries that don’t exist. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would someone please remove these erroneous edits? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>