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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I agree that the priorities need to be codified (for the standard style), but this remains unchanged, no matter if the boundaries are rendered by polygon or by way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Also, this is not something that should be decided or controlled by the mapper/data. The map database just collects all the available information. What of that data to use, and how to prioritize different data is up to every individual consumer, with osm-carto just being one of many.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Colin Smale <colin.smale@xs4all.nl> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 10 March 2018 20:46<br><b>To:</b> tagging@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tagging] Tagging request: missing admin_level tags<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On 2018-03-10 11:31, <a href="mailto:osm.tagging@thorsten.engler.id.au">osm.tagging@thorsten.engler.id.au</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 5.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm'><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 5.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>There is nothing about the data that's desired on the ways that requires any sort of human decision making, it can all be automatically derived from information that's already available.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>One thing that should maybe be codified, is where multiple types of boundary coincide. For boundary=administrative it is pretty clear that the lowest value of admin_level takes precedence for the rendering, but what about if it is co-linear with a political boundary for example? I would expect the rendering for the admin boundary to take precedence here, but does everyone agree with that? What about the boundary of a police area combined with an admin boundary?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I am raising it here because it is subjective, i.e. subject to human decision making, in the absence of any consensus about the relative rendering priorities of these boundary types.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Colin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>