[OSM-talk] rendering boundaries

TSA rjtehpwn at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 18:29:22 BST 2007


But it is still unclear what to use for border_type. Someone should update
the wiki because that one still says to use boundary=national.
I do still think it is unclear to have the same rendering for city borders
as for country borders

On 9/26/07, Martijn van Oosterhout < kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/26/07, TSA <rjtehpwn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We should also decide which tags to use. Wiki says to use
> boundary=national
> > for nation borders but in Sweden they use boundary=aministration
> > border_type=nation. Further there should be tags for city boundaries,
> > province boundaries and should be rendered differently for different
> > borders. I propose to use the Swedish way.
>
> I don't. We've had this discussion before. It's to minimize the number
> of top-level tags so renderers can more easily do the right thing. So:
>
> boundary=administrative
>
> Covers *all* forms of administrative boundaries. That way renderers do
> not have to know all the different kinds. All the distinctions can be
> included in boundary_type, where renders can act (or not) as
> approriate.
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout < kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
>
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