It looks like I haven’t taken action on the decision from I need help understanding Vilnius, Lithuania in OSM yet.
Lithuania currently exists in CityStrides from OpenStreetMap’s admin level 6, so coverage looks like this:
Kaunas, and many others, exist at admin level 8, that coverage looks like this:
That service displays the circles (city centers) rather large, so it blocks out the actual border - if I zoom it, it shows each border correct & not as circles.
So, it’s clear that admin level 6 provides the most complete coverage … but admin level 8 sounds like it could be either too small or just right, probably on a city-by-city basis.
If you visit https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/18WS … zoom in to some areas … and click within the city borders … it will show a popup that displays the city name & some other info. I’d love to know if those cities are generrally “too small” (meaning that Kaunas is an outlier) or if they look like what you’d expect to see when you think of a “city” (or “town” I suppose, yikes this is hard).
I’m guessing that my action should be different from what I linked in that thread… I’m guessing that I should keep admin level 6 in CityStrides as-is, and then also include admin level 8, and mark those as “nested” wherever relevant (there are whole conversations of nested cities in this forum, if you want to learn about that).