[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

[Karl Newman]

On Jan 9, 2008 3:34 PM, Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

I understand why numbers are used instead of names. My question is why are
there no odd numbers listed? It just looked strange.

Karl
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