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I have a proposal. The unofficial regions of the FSA should be marked on the map using admin level 3 border relations. Doing that is discouraged on the Official OSM, because it's pretty inconsistent and the regions are all unofficial anyways. The FSA is a different story, however. As anybody who has worked on the FSA will know, the admins use a region system, above the state level, to keep control over the different sections of the country. The regions actually seem to be quite important, so somebody looking at the map without wandering around in the wiki should be able to tell where they are. TheRealStanPines (talk) 22:15, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

The problem is that admin_level=3 boundaries are not shown on the map, in any meaningful way - you will never see a label for it, nor easily be able to work out its outline. Use our Overpass server and a query to explore how 3 is used in other territories.

Which FSA collab pages could we improve with a map of the relevant regions? Thanks/wangi (talk) 10:50, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

There aren't any, really. All of the pages that demand a region map already have them. TheRealStanPines (talk) 20:19, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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+I have a proposal. The unofficial regions of the FSA should be marked on the map using admin level 3 border relations. Doing that is discouraged on the Official OSM, because it's pretty inconsistent and the regions are all unofficial anyways. The FSA is a different story, however. As anybody who has worked on the FSA will know, the admins use a region system, above the state level, to keep control over the different sections of the country. The regions actually seem to be quite important, so somebody looking at the map without wandering around in the wiki should be able to tell where they are. [[User:TheRealStanPines|TheRealStanPines]] ([[User talk:TheRealStanPines|talk]]) 22:15, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
+: The problem is that <code>admin_level=3</code> boundaries are not shown on the map, in any meaningful way - you will never see a label for it, nor easily be able to work out its outline. Use our Overpass server and a query to explore how 3 is used in other territories.
+: Which FSA collab pages could we improve with a map of the relevant regions? Thanks/[[User:Wangi|wangi]] ([[User talk:Wangi|talk]]) 10:50, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
+There aren't any, really. All of the pages that demand a region map already have them. [[User:TheRealStanPines|TheRealStanPines]] ([[User talk:TheRealStanPines|talk]]) 20:19, 29 January 2026 (UTC)