[mkgmap-dev] Question for French members of the list

Thu May 9 13:24:25 BST 2013

Hi Carlos,

relations with type=boundary, boundary=religious_administration, 
admin_level=9 are not considered in the preprocessed bounds because only 
boundary=administrative are used.

Anyhow I think you have compiled a map of France and have discovered the 
current rules as non optimal. So I am fine with removing the 
admin_level=9 rule if noone complains within the next days.

WanMil

> A user of my map of France reported that he could not find any address
> in Paris in his nuvi. Tracking it down I found that we use the following
> lines in the address file:
> mkgmap:country=FRA & mkgmap:city!=* & mkgmap:admin_level9=* { set
> mkgmap:city='${mkgmap:admin_level9}' }
> mkgmap:country=FRA & mkgmap:city!=* & mkgmap:admin_level8=* { set
> mkgmap:city='${mkgmap:admin_level8}' }
> but according with OSM wiki [1], admin_level=9 is used in France only
> for some "Arrondissement" in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. I have extracted
> admin_level=9 ways and relations in France and those "Arrondissement"
> are named "1re, 2e, 3e,... arrondissement", which I don't know if is
> really used/useful when looking for an address in these cities or if
> different arrondissements can have streets with the same name.
> Looking at the admin_level=9 data in France, there are 93 (for a total
> of 156) relations tagged as type=boundary,
> boundary=religious_administration, admin_level=9 which have nothing to
> do with admin boundaries, but are caught by the fist rule above,
> avoiding the use of the admin_level=8 information for those areas.
> So, the question is, do you think we must keep the admin_level9 line in
> the address file or remove it? I vote for the second, but would like to
> know the opinion of someone who knows better the administrative
> organization of France.
>
> [1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level
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