[OSM-talk] Proper tagging of multi-admin_level borders (Was: National borders in the British Islands)

[Ben Laenen]

On Thursday 19 June 2008, Dylan Semler wrote:
> So you're suggesting for a given segment of a border, there should be
> one way tagged as boundary=administrative without any admin_levels. 
> Then this way should belong to as many relations as admin_levels it
> represents?  I guess that sounds reasonable.

I think it could even be possible to add roads or streams to the 
relation, so there wouldn't need to be two duplicate ways on top of 
each other on those places where the boundary is defined by something 
like a waterway=stream.

greetings
Ben