Changeset: 50392843
US Minor Outlying Islands tune-up
Closed by stevea
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Discussion
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Comment from muralito
It's ok to be boundary=administrative and not have admin_level=*?
Should'nt it be boundary="stastistical" or other user defined value?
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Comment from stevea
It's a bit complicated. If you haven't already, please see our wikis for both United_States_admin_level (especially cite_note=49) and WikiProject_United_States/Boundaries (especially the USMOI note in Notable exceptions).
As far as admin_level needing to be "something," as noted in the US/Boundaries wiki, it suffices that each island is U.S. territory surrounded by territorial waters, delineated admin_level=2. So, for example, something like http://layers.openstreetmap.fr shows "USA territorial waters" surrounding each island (if you have the admin_level=2 box checked).
You are probably correct, as those wikis state that these ARE statistical boundaries. As each member of the relation DOES have an admin_level=2 tag, it all works out, but cite_note 49 does request that we keep the relation. Yes, we should, but if you strongly believe that it shouldn't have a boundary=administrative tag and want to change that to (user-defined, yes) boundary=statistical then I don't have a problem with that. Thanks for bringing this up.
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