While we're on the topic, I think it's a good idea to remain the former
municipality boundaries with admin_level=10, rather than delete them. In
most merged municipalities I know, there is a requirement for example to
have an equal representation of older municipality in commisions (<- I
do not know the english term), and it is now possible for people to have
a former municipality that merged as a "place of origin" (<- I do not
know the english term either). This means the former boundaries still
somehow "exist", in the hearts of people if not administratively.
Consequently the older municipality relation can also be kept with an
"admin_level=10". This is not required, but I'd say it's recommanded, it
costs nothing to keep them (simply change admin_level) rather than
remove them.
I know the recent mergings have been done properly (thank you Simon),
but a certain someone added dozen of tags "place=village" for merged
municipalities, which is *wrong*. In some cases they even removed the
tags for the actual villages ! I spent a lot of time to fix them and
move the tags to the corresponding municipality relations. Should any
"place=village" tags re-appear where there is no village to indicate a
merged municipality, I'll simply remove them and I won't take the time
to transfer the tags to the actual municipality relationship.
Mit freundlische grüsse,
Salutations amicales,
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Jonathan Masur
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