<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 19, 2008 1:03 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega <<a href="mailto:ivansanchez@escomposlinux.org">ivansanchez@escomposlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For example: here in Spain, the NUTS1 level is an artificial classification.<br>Nobody in spain would use that.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>And in the UK, NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 at least are artificial classifications that nobody would use.<br>
<br>Seriously, look<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS:UK">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS:UK</a><br><br>The problem isn't that NUTS defines made up groups of things to go between other levels, it's just that it ignores actual administrative divisions and makes its own ones by agglomeration, that are roughly the same population size as each other.<br>
<br>Meanwhile, in OSM, admin_level is working out quite well.<br><br></div><div>-- <br></div></div>Abi<br>