[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands

[Beau Gunderson]

Surprised no one has posted this link yet:

   http://qntm.org/?uk

A nice Venn diagram of the UK. :)


Beau

On 5/29/08, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
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> Dermot McNally wrote:
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> | 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.
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> Robert (Jamie) Munro
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