<div>Surprised no one has posted this link yet<font size="1">:</font><br> </div>
<div> <a href="http://qntm.org/?uk">http://qntm.org/?uk</a></div>
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<div>A nice Venn diagram of the UK. <font size="1">:)</font><br> </div>
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<div>Beau</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/29/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert (Jamie) Munro</b> <<a href="mailto:rjmunro@arjam.net">rjmunro@arjam.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dermot McNally wrote:<br>|<br>| But the clue here is that we're discussing the appropriate use of<br>
| boundary tagging, specifically a thing we call admin_level. I guess<br>| none of us will disagree that Germany and the UK get to exercise a<br>| higher level of administration than a "country" like England or Wales?<br>
<br>I've always thought that England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland<br>forming the UK are pretty similar to the 50 states forming the USA - I<br>think it would be reasonable to use the same markings on the default map<br>
to divide them.<br><br>Legal purists may want different (or extra) tags in the database on the<br>grounds that it's a completely different situation, but they could be<br>rendered the same.<br><br>Robert (Jamie) Munro<br>
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