On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:18 PM, stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote:
> In other words, New York is just as sovereign as is New Zealand, South > Dakota is as much a nation-state as South Korea. I am not an attorney, but > I can read. This makes for 51 independent jurisdictions: the fifty states > and the United States at a federal level. (There might be > "fifty-something" independent jurisdictions if we include DC, Puerto Rico, > American Samoa, US Virgin Islands... but all of those extras are really > separate areas of the single "federal state"). The latter (the federal > USA) is, legally speaking, absolutely distinct from each of the former (the > sovereign fifty states). Let OSM properly reflect that. More like 200+, actually. Indian nations are usually above the state level, below the US level, with a few exceptions that stand independent straddling the US/Canada border. These aren't mapped yet, mostly because suggestions to use administrative boundary levels 3 and 1 as default levels most tribes and the border stragglers have either gone ignored or shot down.
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