[talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

[Dian Ågesson]

Hey Andrew,

Forgive my ignorance; how should we approach the Nominatim team? I'm 
more than happy to do so, I just don't know where to go.

Dian

On 2021-11-30 09:21, Andrew Davidson wrote:

> On 30/11/21 09:55, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> 
>> Since we don't have formally defined boundaries for 
>> place=region,district,city,quarter,neighbourhood,city_block should we 
>> be adding an admin_level at all?
>> 
>> So should we remove 7/5?
> 
> I'd be happy to get rid of admin_level 7. It never really had a good 
> definition. The ACT district boundaries are currently 7 so we'd have to 
> move them. Maybe to 5, or move 6 to 7 and make 6 the "county" level. We 
> currently don't have anything at 5.
> 
>> I checked via the overpass wizard query "admin_level=8 in AU" and 
>> there are no results, so no australia post borders are mapped that 
>> way, and I'm not aware of any.
> 
> I think that was an accident of history. boundary=postal_code was 
> created after someone chose admin_level=8 for AU post codes.
> 
>> So I'm supportive of removing Australia Post Postode Border from 
>> admin_level=8.
> 
> I second that.
> 
>> That leaves should we move localities from 9 to 8? I don't think it 
>> really matters much to be honest.
> 
> Looking at other countries 8 appears to be things that have some form 
> of administrative body. We should get rid of either 9 or 10 we don't 
> really need both. Maybe move localities up to 9?
> 
> We should ask the Nominatim team before we go making any changes. We 
> don't want to break their stuff.
> 
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