<html><head></head><body>And the England/Wales and /Scotland borders are all 4, too. If we're trying to reflect geopolitical status, these should absolutely be different than provinces. OTOH, if we're just interested in drawing pretty lines....<br>
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-jack<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 24, 2014 12:55:04 PM EST, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-24 18:05 GMT+01:00 Brad Neuhauser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.neuhauser@gmail.com" target="_blank">brad.neuhauser@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"> ...and German states and Swiss cantons are admin_level=4 according to the previously-linked page. </blockquote><div><br /><br /></div><div>yes, I am coming from a German-Italian perspective, where Italian "regions" are clearly less sovereign than German "states", which again are less sovereign than US american states (all on level 4 currently).<br /></div><div>We need the levels 5 to 10 in Germany (all are in use, 3 is not in use). Correspondance of European entities should also be supported by the NUTS and LAU system:<br /><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics</a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_administrative_unit">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_administrative_unit</a></div></div></div><br /></div>cheers,<br />Martin<br /><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /></div></div></div>
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