Admin level differenciation for locations

[severinmenard]

Hi,

Currently, no style (HDM, Mapnik, etc) seems to show which admin level a location (city, towns) is part. It would be really interesting to use what has been set in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level to easily differenciate the administrative centres by various types of dots. This is a classic in cartography and exemples to take inspiration are numerous

[yohanboniface]

Yeah, I totally agree :)

That's what we have started in https://github.com/hotosm/HDM-CartoCSS/pull/130 (displaying capitals).

Not sure we have to take care of all the admin level, but maybe 2/3/4 in a first time is great (2 is already done actually).

What do you think?

[severinmenard]

Yes 4 levels would be good. Only thing is: what is the admin level reference? UN's is: Admin 1,2,3,4,etc. following each other, no blank, country by country. OSM's seems to be different, as shown in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level. All the countries share the same structure and every of them has N/A for the missing levels.

For the rendering, UN system is likely the easiest but how do you manage this with the one that seems be documented in OSM?

[canunen]

Hi there, flagging this issue since there is a discussion topic might be relevant to this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/2113198#map=5/34.994/17.227&layers=H

I don't know if it's related to rendering of the names or some recent mistagging already corrected but not reflected on the rendered tiles yet.