* John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com [2013-05-18 09:49 -0500]:
You might want to take a look at how Virginia is mapped. Cities in
Virginia are not considered to be subordinate to counties, even if
surrounded on all sides by a county.
From what I've seen of Virginia, it seems to be mapped
On May 19, 2013 4:31 PM, Phil! Gold phi...@pobox.com wrote:
(which, I suspect, is why
NYC is currently mapped as admin_level=5).
Well, that's what's in the specification in the wiki. But NYC is currently
mapped as level 8 in OSM.
Although now that I think about it, NYC does seem more
So I propose a different schema:
New York Boroughs: 9
Cities (incl. NYC): 8
Counties: 6
and have separate relations for the counties and boroughs (e.g. Brooklyn
and Kings County), sharing the same ways.
Your proposal sounds entirely reasonable to me. The notion that cities
are
Clay,
Thank you for bringing this up. I have a number of thoughts on this
issue, so it may take me a bit to get to the proposal in your email.
First, I think that this is a good illustration of why some of us
would like all administrative data taken out of OSM and moved into
another dataset. The
You might want to take a look at how Virginia is mapped. Cities in Virginia
are not considered to be subordinate to counties, even if surrounded on all
sides by a county. Towns, on the other hand, are subordinate to, and part of,
counties.
Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote:
So I
In the entry for the United States in this wiki article:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative
Admin levels are listed like this:
Cities: 8
Counties: 6
New York City: 5
In the OSM database as I write this, this is not the case, as New York City
is on level 8 with
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