[Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

[Minh Nguyen]

On 2013-01-01 4:29 PM, dies38061 at mypacks.net 
wrote:
> {{key|border_type}} is described as an alternative and sometimes complement to {{key|admin_level}} .  I have recently been drawing subdivision boundaries based on County GIS data and including {{tag|border_type|subdivision}} as part of a relation of type border; see for instance http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2672911 . --ceyockey

I've also been using border_type as a way of distinguishing between 
cities and villages, which have the same admin_level in my state. 
However, I've been content with mapping suburban subdivisions as landuse 
areas rather than boundary relations. It's a lot easier for other 
mappers to work with.

The benefit of admin_level is that renderers know what to do with them 
right out of the box, whereas every country has different border_type 
values with different levels of significance.

-- 
Minh Nguyen <mxn at 1ec5.org>
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