[OSM-talk] National borders in the British Islands
Lester Caine
lester at lsces.co.uk
Fri May 30 21:17:41 BST 2008
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Viernes, 30 de Mayo de 2008, Lester Caine escribió:
>> Personally I've been viewing admin_level=0 as the world.
>
> Yeah, say that again when extraterrestrials invade us :-P
we can always have -ve number ;)
>> admin_level=1 should equal the continents
>
> I'm against this definition. A continent is a geographical separation, not an
> administrative/political one.
>
> I'd say that admin_level=1 should separate supranational *economic* entities,
> i.e:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Union
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_American_Nations
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Union
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Union
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Asian_Union
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Task_Force_on_North_America
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Central_American_States
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Southeast_Asian_Nations
And European Union ?
I'm not bothered that these levels are numbers, it is just that the CURRENT
numbers do not allow for ALL of the levels as THIS list suggests.
I still think there is a place for continents here rather than having to
create yet another set of numbers? Africa, Asia and the rest are USED to
provide administrative type grouping just as African Union and Asian Union do.
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