[OSM-talk] [Tagging] UK, Cardiff and Edinburgh, change capital=yes to capital=4

[Richard Mann]

RTFM!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level

Wales/Scotland/England are 4, regions are 5

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/2/4 Nick Whitelegg <Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk>:
>>>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level
>
>
>> If they aren't counted as national capitals surely it should be 3 anyway, as
>> surely England, Wales and Scotland are the *immediate* next level down from
>> the UK.
>
>
> I don't know, this is best discussed on talk:uk I guess. It is quite
> normal that there is no admin_level=3 btw. In Germany the
> "Bundesländer" is admin_level=4 like the regions in Italy. If you are
> unsure, you could also have a look at NUTS to make international
> comparisons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics
>
> They are NUTS1 like the German Länder, while the French Regions are NUTS 2.
>
>
>> A "group 4" entity in the UK would be something like
>> "Northern England"
>
> these are "cultural regions" and not administrative regions, so they
> don't belong to any admin_level.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
> BTW: Let's continue on tagging if we do...
>
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