[OSM-talk] place=country/nation/state
Iván Sánchez Ortega
ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org
Tue Feb 19 01:03:07 GMT 2008
El Lunes, 18 de Febrero de 2008, Martin Trautmann escribió:
> NUTS is ok for certain statistical classification - but it may add on
> one hand levels just by population which will cause splits which are not
> known within the country itself.
OK, let's skip those extra levels altogether.
For example: here in Spain, the NUTS1 level is an artificial classification.
Nobody in spain would use that.
> On the other hand the split of NUTS may follow the same structures which are
> given within the country - but they will add abbreviations which are still
> not known within the country.
I'm not talking about using NUTS for naming - my point is, we could use the
NUTS levels to define a consistent territorial division tagging scheme.
[...]
> That's why the [[OpenGeoDB]] has three approaches here:
>
> first: a basic static classification system by levels which may be
> filled more or less completely:
> DE AT CH
> country en:Germany en:Austria en:Switzerland
> de:Deutschland de:Österreich de:Schweiz
> state Bundesland Bundesland Kanton
> gov. region Regierungsbezirk - -
> district Landkreis Bezirk Bezirk
> offices Amt
> municipality Gemeinde Gemeinde Gemeinde
So, why not drop "country/state/district/office" altogether and use an
abstract denomination?
(That doesn't mean that local classification levels couldn't be used:
something like "admin=es:provincia" would equal "admin=abstract_level_3")
Cheers,
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