[Imports] Australian administrative boundaries import

Nelson A. de Oliveira naoliv at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 01:20:02 UTC 2018


On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:52 AM Rafael Avila Coya <ravilacoya at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen that border ways aren't tagged. At least they should have the
> following tags [1]:
>
> boundary=administrative
> admin_level="the highest (lowest number) level it shares"
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary#Way_tags

This really doesn't seem to be necessary and it seems that it's based
on old behaviors/assumptions.

It says that "Boundary relationships are useful for many tools, but
not necessary for rendering purposes, which is why boundary lines
should be tagged to allow for the renderer to use them again." but, at
least, the standard and humanitarian styles/renderers and OsmAnd can
fully understand (and render) administrative boundaries without any
tag on the ways.

Most probably this part should be reviewed at the wiki.



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