Kind of long and complex ahead; apologies in advance for the length.
I've been documenting our
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States_admin_level wiki over much of
the last year with careful research on how US states and territories carve
themselves up into administrative subdivision
*begins reading*
*minutes later, eyes begin watering*
*starts reading from the beginning*
*gives up*
TL;DR
So...what exactly are you asking?
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So last month i started a discussion about a project i took on removing
Tiger zip data across the U.S. I brought it to the community after i
received concern from quite a few mappers in the U.S. After getting more
unfriendly changeset comments and messages in my inbox i'm officially
done. The Proj
Jack Burke writes:
So...what exactly are you asking?
I am asking, after examining the list of nine states, whether you might
volunteer to examine the current status of admin_level tagging in a state (as
it is documented to actually exist in US/Boundaries wiki) and "improve it" (as
it is assert
OSM Volunteer stevea writes:
> To read this, then perhaps participate in first discussion, then
> possibly "solve" these issues, take the second line (Massachusetts) as
> an example. Massachusetts did the MassGIS import, which included
> "City" boundaries and set their admin_level values to 8.
In many new england states you list Town as 7 and City as 8. As a
local, this makes no sense to me. We have to keep separate what OSM
means by words and what various places mean; often they are different.
It's when they are close but not quite that it's extra hard!
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I've already had a fairly lengthy conversation, some time ago, with
stevea about the situation in New York, and I think we have a
reasonable understanding.
Like the New England states, New York is divided into mutually
exclusive counties, which are in turn divided into mutually exclusive
municipal
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