[OSM-dev] Osmarender and boundaries

Dermot McNally dermotm at gmail.com
Sun Sep 16 12:48:29 BST 2007


On 16/09/2007, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd actually prefer boundary=administrative, boundary_type=national.
> There are many kinds of boundaries and rather than inventing new
> toplevel tags for each I think we should work first with categories
> (physical/administrative/private) and have subtypes
> (national/province/council/etc). That avoids the need for every
> renderer to know about every kind of boundary. And people can make new
> types without having to convince renderers to display them.

Works for me - I'll change the Irish border accordingly. If future
discussion arrives at a different conclusion it's easily reverted.

Dermot




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