That plugin looks quite promising - I’ve installed it for my Firefox browser. Thanks for your hint! ;)

This diary entry looks quite nice and detailed describing the situation of completeness of administrative divisions in China. If only an English version were available somewhere for those who cannot speak Chinese! ;)

Thanks for clarification ;)

Another problem for wikipedia users is of course to keep track of those status changes in abandoning, merging or swallowing towns and administrative division upgrade changes which seem to happen a lot per year and have to be updated in several wikipedia templates as well as in wikidata items.

Well written ;)

Of course the main confusion derives from the usage of the term city with character 市 for two different administrative division levels, prefecture-level city (admin_level=5) and county-level city (admin_level=6). I’m actually curious about:

• What exactly does a prefecture-level city administrate in contrast to a county-level city?
• Which distinction is there between county, county-level city, district? I noticed that sometimes a county gets promoted to a county-level city and later possibly to a district even…

Another interesting topic (experienced while editing in zhwiki) is the abandoning of townships or merging with other towns in some provinces but that’s a topic for another diary entry ;)

Eline sağlık, güzel olmuş! Resimli tweet atsana ;)

Yeah, maps.wikimedia.org is great for checking the status of name:nn tags. From time to time I use it to check Greek and Armenian place names in Turkey or Tibetan or Korean place names in China.

@GeoJess: Years ago I had started using name=chinese / english for counties and districts which I nowadays change back to name=chinese and name:en=english whenever I stumble on it. Still I’m using name=tibetan / chinese, name=korean / chinese etc. for places where the majority of population is Tibetan, Korean etc.

But I won’t use such a long name combination on ways like way 230560846 - it seemingly doesn’t get rendered anyway…

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Thank you! :D

Thank you ;)

There are several sites where you can get boundary data from - see overview at osm.wiki/Shapefiles

• Example: https://wambachers-osm.website/boundaries/

That script is really new, yeah! Since I did not know the copyright status of the shapefile I had used as source I had to trace over it manually though. The source isn’t too detailed anyway and using mountain ridges as guideline I got an even better result with tracing. Besides I had been using the place name file for AF from GNS which is quite good and maps from https://humanitarianresponse.info as reference!

Maybe you can create a page SHPtoOSMBoundaries or similar with script information on osm’s wiki and add a link to it on Import a shapefile?! I happens that not everyone is reading osm’s diaries ☺

I wonder how many (percentage) of those roads in China have been created by one user…

OSM oyun oynamaya benzer fakat aynı zamanda bir şeyler oluşturuluyor; başkası akıllı cep aygıtına yazılımları yükleyip offline bile yol bulabilir - yani zaman boşu boşuna gitmez ;-)

Ama eğer evliysen dikkat et…! :D

Do you need these (for me meaningless) nodes tagged with non-osm tags ADM_TYPE, HQ_NAME, PERIMETER, RSO03200_1 etc or can I delete them? (example)

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you’re welcome ;-)

I kind of solved the problem after finding hyd5_4m.zip on http://nfgis.nsdi.gov.cn/mapdata/ (now defunct) which consists of a shapefile of chinese rivers.

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