[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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