[Talk-ca] Re : admin_level of canadian cities

[Pierre Béland]

We should not confuse province and municipality levels.

Quebec city has admin_level=8. See  node description http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1781476959


Quebec province has admin_level=4. See  Administrative boundary relationhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/61549 


Pierre 



>________________________________
> De : Andrew Lester <a-lester at shaw.ca>
>À : 'Bruno Remy' <bremy.qc.ca at gmail.com>; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org 
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 14 juin 2012 14h13
>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] admin_level of canadian cities
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>As far as I can tell, the reason Quebec City is tagged as admin_level=4 is because it’s the capital of the province. As per your linked wiki page, provinces are admin_level=4. For any old non-capital city, they should be tagged admin_level=8. Keep in mind that admin_level=* is primarily intended for use on boundary ways and relations, not the place=* node. The usage of admin_level=*and capital=* on city nodes is part of a proposed feature covering capitals (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/capital). Contrary to what that proposal outlines, the common usage according to Taginfo (http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/capital#values) seems to be that capitals are tagged as capital=[admin level number] (ie. Quebec City would be tagged capital=4).
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>Andrew Lester
>Victoria, BC
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>From:Bruno Remy [mailto:bremy.qc.ca at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:44 AM
>To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-ca] admin_level of canadian cities
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>hi,
>
>What do you suggest for "admin_level" of canadian cities, because i noticed difference between the official Canadian recommendation on Openstreetmap wiki (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries) witch is suggesting LEVEL 8 ... whereas you can check LEVEL 4 for big cities in Canada on Opensstreetmap (Quebec City as instance...)
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>So ... do we adjust our admin_level according to the canadian section of openstreetmap's wiki?
>Or do you suggest to keep on tracks on LEVEL 8 usage... and why?
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>Bruno Remy
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