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If your country uses administrative levels 3 through 11, see the [[#3–11 admin_level values for specific countries|next table]]. |
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Revision as of 09:56, 13 July 2020
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An administrative boundary recognised by governments for administrative purposes.  
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[[Category:Tag descriptions with status "unsupported “defacto” status"|boundary administrative]]
An administrative boundary. Subdivisions of areas/territories/jurisdictions recognised by governments for administrative purposes.
Administrative boundaries range from large groups of nation states right down to small administrative districts and suburbs, with an indication of this size/level of importance, given by the tag 'admin_level' which takes a value from 1 to 11 as described below.
The boundary=administrative tag is used on relations grouping several ways that enclose the administrative area. It is also often duplicated on the ways that build the relation. This works rather like coastline. Because ways have a maximum number of nodes, you are not required to loop around a whole administration with a single way to form a closed area (although this is a good idea for very small administrative areas).
Many administrative boundaries are currently tagged also with place=*.
Note that OSM follows On the Ground Rule. Boundaries recorded in OpenStreetMap are ones that are the most widely internationally recognised and best meets realities on the ground, generally meaning physical control. In areas without clearly defined borders, the line is approximate[1].
Note that it does not mean that OSM community considers specific invasions/wars/whatever that resulted in border change as good/desirable/welcome/wrong. OSM community attempts to map world as it exists, not as it should exist.
Note that in some cases borders may overlap without making it an incorrect tagging. It may be result of agreement between countries to administer area together[2] or to mark areas not controlled by any country, with both claiming it[3]
Super-national administrations
- European Union
Note: a trans-national administration is not a super-national organisation and should not be tagged admin_level=1.
National
boundary=administrative + admin_level=2
marks country borders, such as the border between Austria and Germany. The names of the countries is specified through the tags left:country=*, right:country=*, if used on a linear way rather than an enclosed/area way.
There is some controversy about what is the exact meaning of country. For the sake of clarity, only political entities listed on the ISO 3166 standard are to be considered countries. There also exist some dependent territories and special areas of geographical interest which do have their own ISO 3166-1 code but aren't a country. Two places that do not have codes assigned by ISO are considered countries: Kosovo and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Country names in the table below are written in English.
Sub-national
boundary=administrative + admin_level=3 to 10
marks subnational borders. The names of the subnational entities involved is specified as with national borders, with "parish", "district", "region", "province", "state"
admin_level
admin_level=1 to 10 has been introduced in order that different borders can be rendered consistently among countries (doing this based on border_type would require knowledge of their hierarchy in each country).
Besides administrative boundaries, the admin_level=* tag may also be used on features tagged with government=*. The admin_level=* values described below also apply to the capital=* and heritage=* tags.
Rendering
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admin_level=* Country specific values
When using admin_levels please refer to and apply the correct admin_level=* tag based on the values in the tables below,
There are two tables; one for countries using admin_level 3–10 and one for admin_level 3–11. If your country uses administrative levels 3 through 11, see the next table.
If your country is undocumented, please use the talk page or your local mailing list for discussion, and add it below.
Table 1: Countries using admin_level 3–10
(This wiki table can be edited here)THIS TEMPLATE IS DEPRECATED, PLEASE STOP TO USE/UPDATE IT AND USE THE NEW "Template:Admin_level" INSTEAD (the new template merges admin_level_10 and admin_level_11 templates)
To see the last version of this template before of the merge, it is here.
Please don't delete this page to be able to see history of the changes of this old template.
Table 2: Countries using admin_level 3–11
(This wiki table can be edited here)
THIS TEMPLATE IS DEPRECATED, PLEASE STOP TO USE/UPDATE IT AND USE THE NEW "Template:Admin_level" INSTEAD (the new template merges admin_level_10 and admin_level_11 templates)
To see the last version of this template before of the merge, it is here.
Please don't delete this page to be able to see history of the changes of this old template.
References
- ↑ https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf - OSMF official statement summarizing the situation of mapping disputed boundaries, borders, names and descriptions
- ↑ https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3659532 Condominium Luxembourg-Deutschland with other examples listed for example on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condominium_%28international_law%29#Current_condominia
- ↑ https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/8692572 Perejil Island, claimed by both Morocco and Spain. Both sides agreed not to occupy it. Mapped as outer way on Spain multipolygon, without making it inner of Morocco multipolygon.
See also
- Relation:boundary - For grouping boundaries and marking enclaves/exclaves.
- border_type=* may be used to give the actual name of the boundary's type.
- capital=*
- United States admin_level for a more complete listing of admin_levels, some per-state.
- Country code for adding ISO 3166-1 specific country codes
- Tools by user wambacher: https://wambachers-osm.website/boundaries/ and User:Wambacher#International_Administrative_Boundaries
- SHPtoOSMBoundaries python script. If the SHP contains Administrative Boundaries and you want to transform them into OSM in order to autogenerate and join the multiple boundary relations before importing them.
- Cosmogony is a set of tools to extract, see and check administratives boundaries from OSM