On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 7:07 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote:
How about marking the disputed area (dashed lines) as a new level, say > boundary=administrative + admin_level=15? > Please, not this. From the first two sentences of the first paragraph of the wiki: The admin_level key describes the administrative level of an object within a government hierarchy. A lower level means higher in the hierarchy. Your suggestion breaks this, which is reason enough not to do it. It means special-casing in editors and renderers, which complicates the code a little. It also means special-casing in humans, who are notoriously bad at getting things wrong. In programming, this sort of trick is considered a very bad thing. In the past it was quite common, but these days programmers try to avoid putting special-case values into an otherwise hierarchical or quantitative field (some programmers might accept negative numbers as having special meaning, but many would not). It would also require more effort to reverse if a dispute is resolved. Having something like admin_level=2 + disputed=yes can be reversed easily, but admin_level=15 requires extra effort (not much, but some) in order to figure out what the admin_level should change to. Even admin_level=-2 meaning that when resolved it changes to admin_level=2 would be better than this. To complicate matters further, has anyone considered what to do with condominia like Pheasant Island <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island>? It's not disputed, but it belongs to France for 6 months of the year and to Spain for the other six months of the year. There are other condominia where sovereignty is joint but continuous rather than time-shared. -- Paul
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