[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

[Ben Laenen]

Speaking of enclaves: it's fun to see how AND didn't do that small extra 
effort to include the missing bits of information here: :-p 
http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=51.43816923752404&lon=4.92520170283133&zoom=14&layers=B000F000F

And staying in Belgium, I have to give you the Belgian regions and 
communities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_communities 
They're all adminstrative divisions, all with their own parliaments, so 
that would be fun to tag, or to discuss whether regions or communities 
should have a higher admin_level...

Greetings
Ben


On Thursday 10 January 2008, Tony Bowden wrote:
> Robin Paulson wrote:
> >> Do you mean that a commune (the lowest level of self government)
> >> can be part of more than one unit of each of higher levels? Like
> >> this?
> >
> > yes. some examples:
> > i think turkey lies partly in europe, partly in asia?
>
> There are other examples at even this high a level as well.
>
> Parts of France are in South America (lots of people are surprised to
> find that Brazil has a land border with the EU). Parts of Spain are
> in Africa (Melilla, Ceuta, etc).
>
> And there lots of towns or cities that are in different geographic
> countries than administrative ones (Campione and Büsingen are Italian
> and German towns in Switzerland, Llívia a Spanish town in France,
> etc)
>
> Usually these are enclaves or exclaves, so slightly easier to deal
> with, but we need to constantly remember that the world is a very
> tricky thing to model, with large numbers of quirky edge cases.
>
> Tony