Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-13 Thread Minh Nguyen
On 10/12/09 10:28 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: I sympathize with Greg, and if the surveyors and computational mappers ruled the world, the real world we seek to model will be simpler. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Lynchdjly...@gmail.com wrote: where city limits cross county lines, WTF?

Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-13 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:31 AM, David ``Smith'' vidthe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: You're still acting like the tags are put on regions, when the tags are actually put on borders. It's both.  The relation (specifically, boundary and

[Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread David ``Smith''
In most states, municipal boundaries have been imported from TIGER data. In many of these states, no admin_level tag was used. That should be corrected (admin_level=8 for incorporated municipalities) but that's not the focus of this discussion. In the states where these boundaries were imported

Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: Another question is if these CDPs should be rendered on the default map; I'd say no.  Would a renderer without special knowledge of admin_level render them or ignore them?  Perhaps bogus arguments, but as a thought experiment

Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: So how about boundary=lot Fine with me. It's an issue I care about very little, it's one line of code to change. I believe that in Mass lot lines can straddle town boundaries - but I'm not 100% sure. However, now we're

Re: [Talk-us] CDPs and admin_level

2009-10-12 Thread Bill Ricker
I sympathize with Greg, and if the surveyors and computational mappers ruled the world, the real world we seek to model will be simpler. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:44 PM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: where city limits cross county lines, WTF? Where does that happen? down where a county