[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Lester Caine]

Forgot to hit reply all ;)

Shaun McDonald wrote:
> On 29 May 2008, at 13:31, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 08:57 +0200, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote:
>>> According to Mapnik, Scotland and Wales have declared independence,
>>> and Northern Ireland is part of the Republic of Ireland. Did I miss
>>> something?
>> Give it a few years, then it will be true.
> 
>> Seriously, the number system for borders is rather strange, surely  
>> there
>> must be a more obvious scale. I suppose this has been mentioned before
>> though.
> 
> I thought people are using things like district, country, city, town  
> etc for the boundaries, rather than a numeric value.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:boundary
Is basically wrong - UK boundary should be admin_level=2
admin_level=3 should be used for the separate England/ Scotland/ Wales
boundaries :)

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