problem with names of administrive boundaries

[sommerluk]

Some weeks ago I’ve worked on the administrive boundaries in Ivory Coast (districts at admin_level 2, regions at admin_level 3).

Now, some weeks later, the new boundaries show up in the slippy map at openstreetmap.org, but the respective names does not. (However, in Ghana – at the east of Ivory Coast – this works fine.) What’s going wrong? Or do I have done bad tagging (although I don’t see any difference to Ghana)?

[23cpo]

The difference is that Gahna uses place=state nodes because the style here doesn't render administrative relations very well. Names are only displayed besides the boundary line: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/6.47938/-3.63998

Here you can find such an example node: http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2661484234

[matthijsmelissen]

Does that make it a tagging issue rather than a rendering issue?

[23cpo]

I don't think that it's an issue but i think that the rendering of names from administrative boundaries could be improved. At the moment you have to type in each information twice (redundant) when you want that country or state names get rendered. Once on the relation and then also on the node. That means additional work when you apply or update informations and is an additional source of error.

[23cpo]

There is already an open issue which treats the problem: #104

[matthijsmelissen]

Alright, then I will close the issue here.