[Tagging] any valid usage of admin_level=1 ?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

May 25, 2020, 15:27 by colin.smale at xs4all.nl:

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> On 2020-05-25 14:58, Marc M. wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>>  following a small thread on irc, I have review 20 usage of admin_level=1
>>  all are mistakes, often by new mapper
>>  for ex >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275
>>  is there a case of real use of admin_level=1?
>>  wiki only said that UE isn't a admin_level=1
>>  but don't list any valid usage of it
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#Super-national_administrations
>> https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Umf
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>>  are these all errors or is there an undocumented usecase ?
>>
> I think the European Union is a good candidate for admin_level=1. It has all the attributes of an administration, including elected representatives and (in some cases) directly effective laws. It may be unique in the world, but that doesn't change the duck-test outcome.
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I agree that European Union seems to be a sole viable candidate.

I don't get
"trans-national administration is not a super-national organization"
argument, EU clearly has administration, de facto (also de iure?) laws, elections and so on.

Though it is area where I am not confident at all, so I am not really proposing to do that
- just that I would not be surprised or opposed.

I fixed https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/779838275 as clearly bogus.
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