[Talk-in] Indian districts tagging

[Naveen Francis]

According to the revenue from each station, IR has categoriesed railway
stations in A1,A,B ...etc

There about 100 A1 railway stations in India
On 12 Mar 2016 03:43, "Yogesh K S" <yogesh at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 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>
> 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
>> [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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