[talk-au] Proposing a bulk locality edit for new admin_level definitions

Dian Ågesson me at diacritic.xyz
Sun May 15 20:50:57 UTC 2022



Good morning.

This change to all localities in Australia has been executed.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121025161

https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/121025214

If you have any concerns or questions, please don't hesitate to get in 
touch.

Dian

On 2022-05-09 14:11, Dian Ågesson wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Following the mailing list discussion last month 
> (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2022-April/016101.html), 
> the Australian admin_levels have been updated in the wiki: 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#admin_level=*_Country_specific_values. 
> Admin_level=7 was removed, and suburbs/localities have been adjusted to 
> level 9, to better align with other countries and improve the 
> prominence in rendering.
> 
> I would like to propose performing a bulk edit to change the 
> admin_level of these boundaries to ease the transition. This would 
> involve:
> 
> * using JOSM to retrieve all relations in Australia with 
> boundary=administrative and admin_level=10
> * high-level confirmation that the locality is correct (ie, consistent 
> with the version uploaded by the PSMA import)
> * Changing admin_level to 9
> 
> Due to the size of the data being queried, this might be accomplished 
> with a changeset for each state/territory.
> 
> Are there any comments, feedback or objections about this proposed bulk 
> edit? If there aren't any objections, I'll look to make the change this 
> weekend.
> 
> Dian
> 
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