Tag:boundary=political

+/- boundary=political Description Used on these elements Useful combination political_division Used combinations in World Australia/Oceania Europe (list) Asia (list) Central America (list) South America (list) Africa (list) Status In use

Political, rather than administrative, boundaries are created as boundary type relations tagged boundary=political

Contents 1 Way Tags 2 Relation Tags 3 Relation Members 4 political_division

Way Tags

Ways for political (rather than administrative) boundaries do not need any special tags. If the way has no other tags, then boundary=political can be added, but it isn't really needed if the relation is correctly tagged.

Relation Tags

Key	Value	Discussion
type	boundary
boundary	political
name	a name
political_division	See below

Relation Members

Element	Role	Recurrence?	Discussion
	admin_centre	zero or one	Node representing the administrative centre, usually a town, city or village (depending of the boundary level, see place=*)
	label	zero or one	Node representing where to draw the label.
	(blank) or preferably outer	one or more	used for outer boundary=political member ways
	exclave or outer	zero or more	It's often difficult to discriminate exclaves to designate one as the main "outer" area: it could be the largest one, or the area that contains the officiel center, but some boundaries have several centers, or the center is not always in the largest area. In addition there may exist exclaves that are part of the outer boundary, but which is enclaved in another boundary that is enclaved in the outermost area. For this reason, only "outer" and "inner" are useful geometrically.
	enclave or preferably inner	zero or more

political_division

This relation tag has been proposed for political boundaries when they are distinct from administrative boundaries so admin_level is not applicable.

If political boundary ways are also administrative boundary ways, they should be tagged as such. Elsewhere, they could be tagged with boundary=political ; political_division=*.

Examples for use in different countries have been listed below. Feel free to document any other values used below.

Country	Value	Denotes	Description
BE	linguistic_community	Linguistic Community	The 3 Belgian linguistic communities do not obey the traditional hierarchic scheme of administrative subdivisions; the French and Dutch communities both include for now the Brussels-Capital Region; and the German community is a small eastern part of an arrondissement, within the Province of Liege, itself within the Region of Wallonia.
EU	euro_const	European Constituency
ES	insular_council	Insular council	Intermediate administrative and geographic boundary (which is also electoral), between the province (admin_level 6) and the comarca (admin_level=7), dividing the Belearic Islands and the Canary Islands, created to fully cover one major island and minor islands and unpopulated islets plus their maritime domain within the same territorial waters.
FR	canton	Canton	Election of the conseillers territoriaux (Conseil Général). map
FR	circonscription_législative	Circonscription législative	Election of the deputés (Assemblée Nationale). map
UK	parl_const	Parliamentary Constituency
UK	county_division	County Council Electoral Division	Are often the same as the district wards, but not always.
UK	ward	Electoral Ward