Am 25.07.2011 12:00, schrieb talk-ch-request@openstreetmap.ch:

Am Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:22:42 +0200 schrieb Beni Buess beni@benel.net:

I've added a table to this wiki page [1] to keep track of the work. Add your name to this table before you create relations for admin_level 5/6.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/EN:Switzerland/swissBOUNDARIES3D

Based on [1], I have added the relations of all of political communities (vulgo Gemeinde) to the wiki page of the canton Berne [2], as well the 3 major lakes [3]. Maybe this is helpful in one or an other way.

Let me make some remarks:

* Kudos your for this heavy import job. Thanks :-)

* The names of some (quite a lot) communities are displayed several [4][5] times (same black font). Once as tag of the community boundary and once as tag of the black sign, looking like a burnt down house, or of what ever . This might confuse OSM map users.

** Proposal: What about displaying the names of the political communities the same way (some kind of violet color) as the boundaries. - This might help to distinguish between the political community and the geographical place [6], aka city (with suburb, if so), town (with suburb, if so), village (no suburb, as suburb is displayed bigger as village, thus is confusing [7]) and hamlet (no suburb). In the countryside a political community is often an area (relation) with a variety of places (mostly hamlet, but sometimes villages as well)

* Related to that, are there some kind of Swiss tagging guidelines (some other countries have them)? - Beside of "Recommendations for Switzerland DE:CH:Map Features, FR:CH:Map Features, EN:CH:Map Features [8]. Or the other stuff in the wiki, e.g. Tagging or Map Features.

just my 2 cents, hugi

[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Switzerland:Bern [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Switzerland:Bern#Grenzen_-_Kanton.2C_V... [4] http://osm.org/go/0CZZ2vk [5] http://osm.org/go/0CZZ2vkW- [6] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place [7] http://osm.org/go/0CZcv@b-- [8] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tagging#Recommended%20Tagging%20Scheme%20...