Am 19.12.2018 um 09:38 schrieb Sarah Hoffmann:
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 12:42:26AM +0100, Simon Poole wrote:
Jonathan we've been though this multiple time.
The pre-merge municipalities do -completely- cease to exist as such and do not have any administrative borders of their own after the merger*. Mapping these as admin level 9 is simply wrong (I can live with retaining the borders as historic even though they are meaningless).
admin level 9 is certainly wrong here but how about retagging the old boundaries into place areas, so that the extent of the villages is not lost.
That would make likely Jonathan and surely the geocoders happy.
My main issue with doing that is that many municipalities consist of more than one place, and while there was a hierarchical relationship with the original municipality, that has been replaced with one with the new municipality. If the old municipality is also a place with some kind of determinable extent (for example the built up area), I would prefer to use that. It is just really that mapping places as areas is still somewhat in flux that causes some pain there.
Simon