[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

[Thomas Wood]

On Jan 9, 2008 10:58 PM, Karl Newman <siliconfiend at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could query it for admin_level=4 to get the state or
> province name, to take an example from the "boundary" key page on the Wiki.
> (Does anyone know why there are only even numbers for the admin_level
> values???)

I believe its so it would fit all possible international region schemes.
It also fixes the issue for different levels of regions being called
the same thing, eg counties in the UK and US.


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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)