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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>May 25, 2020, 15:27 by colin.smale@xs4all.nl:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>On 2020-05-25 14:58, Marc M. wrote:<br></p><blockquote style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" type="cite"><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class=""><div>Hello,<br></div><div><br></div><div> following a small thread on irc, I have review 20 usage of admin_level=1<br></div><div> all are mistakes, often by new mapper<br></div><div> for ex <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275</a><br></div><div> is there a case of real use of admin_level=1?<br></div><div> wiki only said that UE isn't a admin_level=1<br></div><div> but don't list any valid usage of it<br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#Super-national_administrations">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#Super-national_administrations</a><br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Umf">https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Umf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div> are these all errors or is there an undocumented usecase ?<br></div></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace" class="">I think the European Union is a good candidate for admin_level=1. It has all the attributes of an administration, including elected representatives and (in some cases) directly effective laws. It may be unique in the world, but that doesn't change the duck-test outcome.<br></div></blockquote><div>I agree that European Union seems to be a sole viable candidate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't get<br></div><div>"trans-national administration is not a super-national organization"<br></div><div>argument, EU clearly has administration, de facto (also de iure?) laws, elections and so on.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Though it is area where I am not confident at all, so I am not really proposing to do that<br></div><div>- just that I would not be surprised or opposed.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I fixed <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275</a> as clearly bogus.<br></div> </body>
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