usually if its included in name its: Xyz Township not township of xyz On Feb 26, 2018 3:24 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthew: > > You do fine work here, yet I have a concern about "Township." I don't > know if in Canada, a Township is a bit of an "odd duck" like it is in the > USA. In the USA, we have county as admin_level=6, township as > admin_level=7 (in about one-third of states) and city/town/village as > admin_level=8. The reason for 7 has to do with the way that a county might > assign "home rule" responsibilities, which flow from the state extending > its political administration to the counties, then a county might push this > through to a "township," a crucial component being that township > jurisdictions can often (but do not always) cover the ENTIRE county, rather > than a portion of it, like a city does. It's a little complicated, it > varies from state to state, in our Midwest Region it often has to do with > the way that state surveys were done (not the same in our New England > Region) and OSM doesn't always align with the US Census Bureau's > methodologies and/or results, (but does most of the time, there are good > reasons for why OSM has reached the consensus we have in those exceptional > cases, and we document these in our wikis). > > If Canada (its provinces, actually, I believe) has this same or a similar > concept of "township," (you might, you might not), then admin_level=7 might > be correct on Canadian "Township of..." boundaries. If not, I'm blowing a > lot of smoke into the equation and I'll thank you for reading and apologize > for wasting time on this thread. > > Yes, they are USA-specific, but we have https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/ > United_States_admin_level (prescriptive, comprehensive) and > https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/WikiProject_United_States/Boundaries > (descriptive, rather more user-friendly/novice-oriented). You might > check these out (especially https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/ > WikiProject_United_States/Boundaries#Civil_townships) if Canada has > "townships" as "potentially completely subdivided county entities" and see > how we do it here (basically, they are admin_level=7). > > Looking at the Canada row in https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag: > boundary%3Dadministrative and https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/ > WikiProject_Canada#Administrative_Boundaries I don't see this, I see that > "Townships" are agglomerated together with "cities, villages, etc." If > that's correct, again, all of this I'm spouting about "Township" can be > ignored, as it is effectively another word to describe an admin_level=8 > entity and you seem to be fine leaving things that way. > > Regards, > SteveA > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca >
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