[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Thu May 29 14:26:44 BST 2008


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Dermot McNally wrote:
|
| But the clue here is that we're discussing the appropriate use of
| boundary tagging, specifically a thing we call admin_level. I guess
| none of us will disagree that Germany and the UK get to exercise a
| higher level of administration than a "country" like England or Wales?

I've always thought that England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland
forming the UK are pretty similar to the 50 states forming the USA - I
think it would be reasonable to use the same markings on the default map
to divide them.

Legal purists may want different (or extra) tags in the database on the
grounds that it's a completely different situation, but they could be
rendered the same.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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