[OSM-talk] Hierarchy of places

[Pieren]

A forth possibility is to use the relation "boundary" where
admin_level is provided:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:boundary

If two places are in the same place (e.g. Paris France <-> US), then
it can be sorted by the lowest admin_level.
And admin_level is already an attempt to give a worldwide consistent
categorization:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level

Of course, this will work only if the place node representing an
administive level is attached to its "boundary" relation (which is not
said in the wiki at the moment).

Pieren

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote: