Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

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

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

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! signature.asc

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

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

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

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

[Talk-us] Tiger Zip Data Removal Project (Update)

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

Re: [Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

*begins reading* *minutes later, eyes begin watering* *starts reading from the beginning* *gives up* TL;DR So...what exactly are you asking? -- Typos courtesy of fancy auto spell technology___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

[Talk-us] Differences with USA admin_level tagging

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