[Tagging] Tagging request: missing admin_level tags

[Matthijs Melissen]

On 10 March 2018 at 01:51, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote:
> OpenStreetMap Carto, the default stylesheet on openstreetmap.org, is
> considering to change the mechanism for rendering admin boundaries.
> The proposed rendering of admin borders will be based on admin
> boundary ways rather than polygons. This has a number of advantages -
> for example, it will make it possible to style maritime boundaries
> differently.

Hi all,

Thank you all for all feedback. I will take this back to the project.

Just something I'd like to clarify: many of you seem to assume this
introduces a new tagging paradigm. The opposite is true: the proposal
uses a tagging scheme that is already used in about 90 percent of the
countries, and the retagging request only concerns the exceptions. You
might or might not agree with this tagging scheme, but it is the way
things are currently done in most countries.

I would also like to point out that other data consumers do rely on
the presence of admin_level on boundary ways too. For example,
https://www.öpnvkarte.de and https://korona.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/
already rely on admin_level tagging on boundaries (and thus do not
display internal admin boundaries in Poland). There might be more of
them.

Anyway, as I said, I will take this back to the project and will let
you know if there is news.

— Matthijs