[Talk-ro] Administrative subdivisions of Romania

[Strainu]

2012/6/6 Frederik Ramm <frederik la remote.org>:
> Dear Romanian OSMers,
>
>   I'm sorry for writing in English, my Romanian is a bit rusty ;)

Hi Frederik,
> admin_level 3 = "the boundaries of historical provinces (Transylvania,
> Moldavia ...), but I don't think they will ever be drawn, as these are not
> administrative boundaries any more."

The assumption is probably correct :)

> They do not have an admin_level (which is unusual for relations tagged
> boundary=administrative). From Wikipedia I gather that these are so-called
> "development regions".

There have been proposals recently to dump the counties and move the
administrative bodies to these development regions.

>
> I would like to suggest that you/we do one of two things:
>
> * Either remove the "boundary=administrative" tag from these relations if
> they are not administrative boundaries.
>
> * Or leave the "boundary=administrative" in place, but then add
> admin_level=3 and modify the description in the Wiki accordingly (i.e. write
> that admin_level 3 is now used for development regions).

The second proposal sounds better to me. Even without formal ruling
bodies, some European funds are distributed based on these regions, so
they have some administrative function.

Thanks for bringing this up,
Strainu