[OSM-dev] Getting admin_level=* from relations to render properly

[John Smith]

2010/4/28 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> This is less about thinking and more about doing. Believe it or not, the
> first method that is able to solve the boundaries problem will win. No
> matter if it's a bot, a osm2pgsql patch, or an ugly SQL query on the mapnik
> stylesheet side of things.

That's all hand waving and appeals to emotion and diverting attention
away from fixing a problem.

> And, personally, I think that a bot is the simplest, quickest way of
> achieving this.

I doubt this is the quickest or simplest, and certainly no where near
the most efficient.

Using a bot to brute force add information that can be derived from
other bits of data is a waste of time, just like is_in=* tagging is
just as useful for the same reasons.