[Tagging] place or border_type ?

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:48:42AM +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > Il giorno 28 ott 2019, alle ore 10:00, Sarah Hoffmann <lonvia at denofr.de> ha scritto:
> > 
> > It is one possibility to tag such administrational oddities
> > as German "kreisfreie Städte" where an admin_level=6 may be
> > a county or a city.
> 
> 
> thank you, this is indeed a case where it actually adds detail and is not simply replicating the meaning of the admin boundary tags. Looking at some data, there’s also de:place=city, likely to avoid conflicts with place=city areas seen as built up / settlement area, sadly the nature of many kreisfreie Städte is still only tagged in note and de:place:note tags.

The tagging is very inconsistent in that matter. I don't think that
it was ever discussed anywhere. It just happened. But these oddities
are not a purely German matter. There are quite a few cities around the
globe with a special status, e.g. Algiers, Moscow, Vienne, Havanna.

So I'd be in favour of a globally applicable place=* tagging.

Sarah