[OSM-dev] Major improvements to MapOSMatic

[Ulf Lamping]

Am 05.01.2010 09:44, schrieb Thomas Petazzoni:
> Hello,
>
> Le Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:38:18 +1000,
> John Smith<deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>  a écrit :
>
>> Also the admin boundaries don't seem to work, or maposmatic is looking
>> for something completely different than is entered in Australia.
>>
>> As a result it's telling people to enter admin boundaries that
>> effectively already exist.
>
> We use administrative boundaries of admin_level=8. According to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative, these
> administrative boundaries correspond to "Postcode border (used for GIS
> and census)" in Australia.
>
> Is this the correct level for city maps ? Or should we use another
> level ?

First of all, thanks for the nice service!

Maybe let the user choose the level, e.g. if a user only wants "his" 
suburb, he could choose admin_level 10.

Keeping the default level 8 would be ok here in germany :-)

Regards, ULFL