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Cleaning up admins

Postiwyd gan amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍⚧️ ar 17 Hydref 2014 yn English Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf ar 8 Ionawr 2017.

I’m looking through the OSM database and finding a lot of weird quirks in the admin_hierachy. There are lots of things that are tagged admin_level=2 that I don’t think are quite right. If you get a message from me, it might be because of that.

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Sylwadau gan EdLoach ar 17 Hydref 2014 am 12:48

Good luck with tidying. If you start considering whether the correct admin level has been added to ways that are in multiple relations, I have a report for the British Isles - the errors you can perhaps ignore as I think they are where political boundary relations have been added as subareas of administrative boundary relations.

Also ignore the “unnecessary tag” bit - it seems Mapnik still needs the highest level admin value on the ways for rendering if I’ve understood this discussion correctly.

Sylwadau gan amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍⚧️ ar 17 Hydref 2014 am 12:51

Cool. I’m helping to map and process some of the Irish historic boundaries at townlands.ie

Sylwadau gan stephan75 ar 17 Hydref 2014 am 18:47

Hello rorym,

please be aware that administartive boundary relations are under a permanent review process by some OSM experts.

See for example osm.wiki/User:Wambacher (scroll down there)

and try his tool https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/

If you have issues with some borders, why not starting a thread at the OSM forum?

http://forum.openstreetmap.org

Stephan

Sylwadau gan amapanda ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ 🏳️‍⚧️ ar 18 Hydref 2014 am 14:22

Hi @stephan75, Thanks for your concern. Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough, but I’m only looking at admin_level=2’s, i.e. countries. There are a few badly tagged ways/relations which aren’t really admin_level=2 (e.g. osm.org/way/259259040 ).

ATM I’m just messaging the people who mapped those things.

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