[Tagging] Tagging request: missing admin_level tags

Jo winfixit at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 09:30:47 UTC 2018


I added many borders in Uganda a few years ago, they are gray in your
rendering. Should I go and put admin_level tags on them now? For the
highest or the lowest admin_level they are part of?

Or a semicolon separated list...?

Seems like a step backward to me, but I guess, whatever works.

Polyglot

2018-03-10 10:15 GMT+01:00 Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de>:

> On Saturday 10 March 2018, Matthijs Melissen wrote:
> > [...] This has a number of advantages -
> > for example, it will make it possible to style maritime boundaries
> > differently.
>
> I have already strongly voiced by opinion on this in the style
> development discussion:
>
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-
> carto/pull/2950#issuecomment-345839634
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-
> carto/pull/3074#issuecomment-368227660
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-
> carto/pull/3102#issuecomment-370394640
>
> But i want to add here that the statement cited above is simply wrong.
> There are lots of ways you can style maritime boundaries differently -
> some of them are difficult using the tool chain currently used by
> OSM-Carto, others come with design restrictions - just like the status
> quo in the style or the method you are planning to use.  But the idea
> that this approach is without good alternatives is a misapprehension of
> the situation.
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann
> http://www.imagico.de/
>
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