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Wborrem

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Registered: 2020-08-13

Posts: 1

newbie question on admin_levels

Hi all,

I've been exploring the wonders of OSM and QGIS and data visualization and it has been like discovering a new planet: marvelous and overwhelming.

My goal is to visualize election results by polling station boundaries in Serbia. I understand that these boundaries do not exist in OSM for Serbia, but  admin_level=9 and admin_level=10 are close enough for what I need. My problem is linking the database with election results to the fields in QGIS. I've imported the admin_levels from OSM. But the data does not contain a link to the higher admin_level, which is a problem because many levels do not have unique names, so I need to see to what municipality a certain field belongs to. I would assume that this should be fairly straightforward as I assume they are all linked in order to display OSM. So obviously I must be doing something wrong.

So the short question is: how can I link admin_level 9 to admin_level 8 in a spreadsheet so that I can link it to my list of polling stations.

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Wborr

stephan75

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 2,918

Re: newbie question on admin_levels

Are there existing items on https://www.wikidata.org/ for your boundaries with admin_level=9 and =8?

Pedja

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From: Užice, Serbia

Registered: 2012-03-22

Posts: 588

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Re: newbie question on admin_levels

You could ask in OSM Serbia forum. There are people who are very experienced in using OSM data.

https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewforum.php?id=62

Last edited by Pedja (2020-08-24 22:41:11)