> From: James Ewen [mailto:ve6...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 9:22 PM > To: talk-ca > Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Suivi OSM / OSM Monitoring > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > > I don't know how it works in the rest of the country, but in Alberta, > once an area declares itself a City, it gets separated from the county > it may have been a part of as far as taxes and other funding are > concerned. The urban node of Sherwood Park was for the longest time the > world's largest hamlet. With a population of 65,000 it could easily > become Alberta's seventh largest city, but to declare itself a city, it > would need to draw an administrative boundary. If that boundary included > the refineries east of Edmonton, then the rest of Strathcona County > would lose a huge tax base, and be left with less money for > administration. If the administrative boundary were drawn to just > include the urban area, then Sherwood Park would be left with a large > residential population used to the service levels available with a much > smaller tax base to support them. Therefore the solution is to create > the Specialized Municipality of Strathcona County that includes nine > hamlets. > > So, while admin level=6 may be of little importance to you, there are a > bunch of politicians, and other municipal government administrators that > would argue otherwise.
But your example doesn't involve any of the BC admin_level=6 boundaries I was talking about. Politically, culturally and economically they're viewed as less important than cities here. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
