[Tagging] Tagging request: missing admin_level tags

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Mon Mar 12 07:23:27 UTC 2018


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.kenny+osm at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, 12 March 2018 11:15
> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
> <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Tagging request: missing admin_level tags

> I'm glad we're in agreement here. This was my key point: the fact
> that the existing rendering technology makes implementing 'render at
> most one boundary on any given way' insanely difficult when the
> boundaries are associated with relations that the way is a member of.
> With osm2pgsql, I'm not sure that's even possible without digging
> through the slim tables, and I've certainly never managed to
> implement a rendering that gets it right.
> 
> If we can fix the main technical issue, the tagging problem becomes
> much less significant. I was hoping this discussion might bring out
> of the woodwork a programmer who's clever enough to solve it cleanly.

I believe that this open issue would probably get you most of the way towards a viable technical solution:

https://github.com/openstreetmap/osm2pgsql/issues/230





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