On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: > On 10/21/2010 07:12 PM, Anthony wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alex Mauer<ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: >>> The point of admin_level is *not* primarily to record which governments >>> are >>> above another. It’s to indicate which governments across different >>> countries and states are (approximately) equivalent. >> >> Then we shouldn't use numbers, or if we're going to use numbers we >> should assign those numbers in random order. > > Huh? Why? What do you propose instead? Please don’t say “use the name of > the entity”, because we already have a key that does that (border_type) and > it would make it a nightmare to make a consistent international map.
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