[Talk-in] Indian districts tagging

[Yogesh K S]

> 1. place=district makes sense. We should change this.
Great, have updated the wiki - 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries#Administrative_divisions 
and will change the values from county to district.
> 2. Looking at 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative it 
> seems like admin_level=6 is a popular choice for a district level unit 
> in the other big countries, larger than India. Its a good idea to use 
> 6 for consistency. And it allows use to use the 5 slot for the zonal 
> councils.
Right, admin_level=6 seems better for districts than 5. But how do we 
take care of districts that are already tagged with 5? As most of the 
districts have already been tagged 5 - 
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/keys/admin_level#values, should we mass 
replace them with 6 if the consensus is in favor of this here?

And also values like A & A1 are used in combination with railway=station 
tag - http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/eWQ. Don't know what do these values 
indicate in an administration boundary and relate to railway stations.


thanks,
yogi

>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yogesh K S <yogesh at itforchange.net 
> <mailto:yogesh at itforchange.net>> wrote:
>
>     Currently I see that we have tagged most of the Indian
>     districts(more than 300) with place=county[1] but this tag is
>     mainly used on nodes rather than on administrative boundaries ways
>     that are tagged with boundary=administrative.[2] But we have added
>     administrative boundaries for all districts in India[3] and
>     haven't tagged with place tags. And also we have used
>     admin_level=5 for all district boundaries but the wiki shows
>     admin_level=6 for district boundaries.[4]
>
>     Request the community to comment or provide suggestions on -
>
>         1. Whether to use place=district instead of place=county since
>     we refer them as districts on the ground in India.[2]
>         2. Whether to update the India wiki page to avoid confusion on
>     using admin_level=5 for districts considering we haven't added
>     revenue division boundaries[4].
>
>
>     [1]taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/place=county
>     <http://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/place=county>
>     [2]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Administratively_declared_places
>     [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_India
>     [4]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_India/Boundaries#Administrative_divisions
>
>
>     cheers,
>     yogi
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