[OSM-talk] Finding what country something is in (new website)

[John Smith]

--- On Fri, 31/7/09, Matthias Versen <spam at mversen.de> wrote:

> > I also checked the Australian state borders and they
> are marked as admin_level=4;10 which may interfere with
> things if the script was only looking for a single number,
> however the boundary is used for local and state.
> 
> We usually Tag only the "highest" (1=highest) admin_level
> on a border in 
> Germany because an admin_level=2 (country) border is always
> the same 
> border for the lower admin_levels.
> The different admin_levels have of course always their own
> relation.

I've redone all the admin_levels=4 like you suggested, however I'm not sure if the NSW/ACT state borders are correct and would like a second opinion or third on this.

This is the relation for the NSW state border.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/80372

Contained within this border is the ACT.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/80411

I've labeled the respective relations outer and inner on relation 80372 but JOSM shows 2 unjoined sections, while that seems to be a JOSM bug I want to make sure that I've done the correct thing.