Re: [Tagging] Paper streets?

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Anthony wrote: > It doesn't feel right to call something a highway=* if it isn't usable > for travel.  If it is usable for travel, then it should be tagged > highway=track/path/etc as appropriate. highway=proposed and highway=construction aren't usable for travel.

Re: [Tagging] Paper streets?

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Bennett
>I was not aware that having OSM map streets was the kiss of death for any >further development. Hi. These are the kinds of sarcastic, unhelpful remarks that make OSM lists suck. Please don't do it. Steve ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap

Re: [Tagging] Is highway=service, service=drive_thru a good idea?

2010-10-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: > It is for this reason that I prefer underscores myself. > > So service=drive_through it is? I think so. Could we also start recording deprecated synonyms on the wiki? In this case, service=drive-through and service=drive_thru should

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser : > Aren't admin_level and place getting at slightly different things? >  admin_level is to mark official political/legal boundaries.  place is to > mark a...well...place that has a name, and the > place=city|town|village|hamlet does not necessarily align with the type of

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Mann
admin_level=8, as per > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries place=suburb if it's a bit of a larger urban area place=town if it corresponds to a reasonably large standalone urban area place=village if it corresponds to a single small standalon

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Richard Mann : > place=locality if it's not got a single small standalone area locality is to be used for uninhabited places according to the wiki. The is also place=isolated_dwelling for singular settlements (just one house/maximum 2 households) cheers, Martin ___

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Mann
Townships are units of govt that are subdivisions of County, typically square, population and urban form varies (to save you the trouble of reading the wiki article he suggested you read if you don't know what they are). If the township contains a series of tiny places, but people do genuinely giv

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Richard Mann : > Townships are units of govt that are subdivisions of County, typically > square, population and urban form varies (to save you the trouble of > reading the wiki article he suggested you read if you don't know what > they are). Then it is a case for admin boundaries IMH

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:02 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser : > > Aren't admin_level and place getting at slightly different things? > > admin_level is to mark official political/legal boundaries. place is to > > mark a...well...place that has a name, and the > > pla

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Antony Pegg
M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Then it is a case for admin boundaries IMHO. I think I agree with this - and also with a comment from talk-us of tag it as place=township anyway One of the issues seems to be that the admin_level tag for the US seems very bare bones: 2 - national 4 - State 6 - Cou

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Antony Pegg wrote: > M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > >> Then it is a case for admin boundaries IMHO. > > I think I agree with this - and also with a comment from talk-us of tag it > as place=township anyway > > One of the issues seems to be that the admin_level tag f

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Brad Neuhauser : > Functional (subjective) tagging versus tagging to a set standard (objective) > is one underlying reason why US highway tagging is so inconsistent-- I can't follow you here. Functional classification of inhabited places (settlements) doesn't have to be subjective, it

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Antony Pegg writes: > tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to come down to > two main tags: > > admin_level and place Before you over-simplify, let me point out a couple things: 1. Not all of the US is incorporated. In the Northeast, every tiny part of land is incorpora

Re: [Tagging] Is highway=service, service=drive_thru a good idea?

2010-10-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar > wrote: >> It is for this reason that I prefer underscores myself. >> >> So service=drive_through it is? > > I think so. > > Could we also start recording deprecated synonyms on the wik

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Andrew S. J. Sawyer
My thoughts are mixed in below. *On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny wrote: * > > * Antony Pegg writes: > > > tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to come down > to* * > > two main tags: > > > > admin_level and place > > Before you over-simplify, let me point out a

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Peter Budny : > 2. Defining how "important" a city is (and thus, how big its label on > the map should be) is a tricky thing to do.  Population is certainly a > large factor, but how do you define this?  The City of Atlanta is the > #33 most populous city in the US, with 540,000 people,

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
"Andrew S. J. Sawyer" writes: > My thoughts are mixed in below. > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny wrote: > > Antony Pegg writes: > > > tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to > > come down to two main tags: > > > > admin_level and pla

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:06 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer < dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/10/20 Peter Budny : > > 2. Defining how "important" a city is (and thus, how big its label on > > the map should be) is a tricky thing to do. Population is certainly a > > large factor, but how do you de

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Peter Budny wrote: > "Andrew S. J. Sawyer" writes: > > > My thoughts are mixed in below. > > > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:17, Peter Budny wrote: > > > > Antony Pegg writes: > > > > > tagging admin area / populated centers / labels in USA seems to > >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Brad Neuhauser writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:06 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > > 2010/10/20 Peter Budny : > > 2. Defining how "important" a city is (and thus, how big its label on > > the map should be) is a tricky thing to do.  Population is certainly a > > large fact

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > From the place page: > "In most Western countries, the status of a location (whether it is a > city/town/etc.), is decided by the government, and is not a function of > size. ***But most OSM communities of those countries have made a conven

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Brad Neuhauser > wrote: > > From the place page: > > "In most Western countries, the status of a location (whether it is a > > city/town/etc.), is decided by the government, and is not a function of > >

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some regions, and the sparcity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of the US are much more densely occupied than others; and (3) the administrative units in the wes

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 11:35 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: From the place page: "In most Western countries, the status of a location (whether it is a city/town/etc.), is decided by the government, and is not a function of size. ***But most OSM comm

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some regions, and the sparcity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of the US are much more densely occupied than othe

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Ralf Kleineisel
On 10/20/2010 06:34 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > I suppose we could just tag all place markers with a > city_dominance_score= tag... or we could just add a step in the > rendering pipeline to calculate it automatically from various datasets > and some rules. I think we should have something in the OS

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:53 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Well, additional reasons for the density of place names in some regions, and the sparsity in other regions, are: (1) not all of the US uses the same hierarchy of administrative units; (2) some parts of the

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:06 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > another approach from the same page is titled "dominance" where > dominance expresses the distance to the next "higher" (in terms of > importance / population) place. The higher (in terms of distance) the > more dominant. > > This serv

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Budny wrote: [ ... ] > I forgot to mention control cities > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_city). > These are cities that are designated for use on highway signs to > indicate which direction you're heading.  These should definitely appear > on the

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > (4) some people correctly use the place=* tag to reflect the government of > a place rather than the population because they put the population in the > population=* tag. Fixed for you. ___ Tagging m

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Peter Budny : >> 1) whether this matrix influences what "place" level the city >> gets (or maybe these are all large enough cities, so this point >> doesn't matter) > > I think that if this dominance scheme (or something like it) were used, > place= would become irrelevant except to mark

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: (4) some people correctly use the place=* tag to reflect the government of a place rather than the population because they put the population in the population=* tag. Fixed for you. Sorry, but

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer : > Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for every > country? > > I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on! actually this never worked well, and in Germany and Italy people are not following these definitions strictly (but ofte

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
Please note that the US TIGER imported city boundaries do use place=* for the actual type of place it is. Thus the claim that there's a population-based standard in the US is false. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstre

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 12:57 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >>> >>> (4) some people correctly use the place=* tag to reflect the government >>> of >>> a place rather than the population because they

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 01:06 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/10/20 Alex Mauer: Is there some reason it would need to be repeated over and over for every country? I recognize the idea of American exceptionalism, but come on! actually this never worked well, and in Germany and Italy people are not

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer : > The definitions are well-established. but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the wiki for key=place. I don't know if the British do tag strictly according to the place description, but I know that Italians and Germans don't. In Europe a town can

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 01:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: I did and saw no guidelines for the US. I looked at existing tagging and there was no standard (population-based for nodes but type of government-based for areas). You saw guidelines for OSM, and apparently took it upon yourself to ignore them be

Re: [Tagging] shop=kiosk

2010-10-20 Thread Mailerdeamon1
I agree, also here in germany its not defined what a kiosk offers. Mostly it sells stuff like lottery-stuff, small tourism-stuff, papers, food and drinks, sweets, ice-cream and so on. But generall not all kiosks are selling food and not all of them ice-cream and even not all of them are selling

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 01:08 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> >> I did and saw no guidelines for the US. I looked at existing tagging >> and there was no standard (population-based for nodes but type of >> government-based for areas). > > You saw guideline

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 01:24 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/10/20 Alex Mauer: The definitions are well-established. but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the wiki for key=place. Oh? Every language version of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place says approximatel

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer : > IMO that just means that rendering needs to be based purely and directly on > population numbers, or we need some higher numbers (1 000 000 = > metropolis[1]  10 000 000 = megacity[2]? ) It might be useful to use a > relation to group separate legal-cities with their core

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 Alex Mauer : > On 10/20/2010 01:24 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >>> The definitions are well-established. >> >> but they are not reflected in the (international/main part of) the >> wiki for key=place. > > Oh? Every language version of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place > say

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Richard Weait writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > > [ ... ] > >> I forgot to mention control cities >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_city). >> These are cities that are designated for use on highway signs to >> indicate which direction you're heading.  These

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: > There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA > and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a > map. I think you're right here, though I probably would indicate the township boundaries

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 01:43 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I guess that Tübingen is more known to the average German then Reutlingen, but that's just a guess. As written before, traditionally cartographers gave more importance to Tübingen, while in current automated internet cartography Tübingen looses a

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > Perhaps we need to shift the discussion to actually figuring out a better > replacement for place=*? place=incorporated? ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Alex Mauer writes: > On 10/20/2010 01:43 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> I guess that Tübingen is more known to the average German then >> Reutlingen, but that's just a guess. As written before, traditionally >> cartographers gave more importance to Tübingen, while in current >> automated inter

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
I am not aware of any location in the USA (or anywhere else in the world, for that matter) where a downtown was torn down for fear of riots. There are a few cities where large numbers of buildings have been abandoned by their former owners because of the collapse of the local economy, after the

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Alex Mauer writes: > On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > > (7) Neither Mapnik nor Osmarender can handle labeling cities which are > stored as multipolygons. They only know how to deal with nodes. Multipolygon handling is pretty bad in general, not just for city labels. In particular, s

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: >> There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA >> and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a >> map. > > I think you're right here, though I probably would indica

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > Alex Mauer writes: > >> On 10/20/2010 12:16 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >> >> (7) Neither Mapnik nor Osmarender can handle labeling cities which are >> stored as multipolygons. They only know how to deal with nodes. > > Multipolygon handling is pre

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > Anthony writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: >>> There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA >>> and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a >>> map. >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > Anthony writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: >>> There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA >>> and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a >>> map. >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 02:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: Anthony writes: I think you're right here, though I probably would indicate the township boundaries on most maps in a similar (though somewhat less prominent) manner to county boundaries - at least at certain zoom levels. It sounds like you may have

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding is you won’t find a chunk of land that is both “city|village|etc.” and “township” simultaneously; cities

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: >> Anthony writes: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not poin

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >> >> Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other >> municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my >> understanding is you won’t find a chunk of land that is

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
Dieter Driest may have heard a garbled description of "urban renewal", a now-largely-discredited urban-planning technique where large areas of substandard housing were torn down and replaced by government-built public housing, what the British would term council estates. Some of the land was u

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Peter Budny wrote: > Anthony writes: > >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny wrote: >>> Anthony writes: >>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew wrote: > There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 03:14 PM, Anthony wrote: Only in those 11 states, right? I'm surprised admin level isn't already handled defined on a state by state level. Why treat it differently depending on the state? —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >> >> Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other >> municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my >> understanding is you won’t find a chunk of land that is

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
Not all US states use the same administrative hierarchy. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships? >From :mailto:ha...@hawkesnest.net Date :Wed Oct 20 15:22:21 America/Chicago 2010 On 10/20/2010 03:14 PM, Anthony wrote: > Only in those 11 states, ri

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >> On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: >>> >>> Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other >>> municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wrong, but my >>> understanding is you won’t fin

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 03:14 PM, Anthony wrote: >> >> Only in those 11 states, right? >> >> I'm surprised admin level isn't already handled defined on a state by >> state level. > > Why treat it differently depending on the state? Because states do thin

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Anthony wrote: > None of this has anything to do with place=*, which discusses > settlements, not administrative divisions. IOW, a municipality may also be a settlement, but then, it may not be. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/20

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge : > I am not aware of any location in the USA (or anywhere else in the world, for > that matter) where a downtown was torn down for fear of riots.  There are a > few cities where large numbers of buildings have been abandoned by their > former owners because of the co

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 03:24 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: Not all US states use the same administrative hierarchy. Yeah, but for example we use the same admin_level regardless of whether it’s called a county, a borough, or a parish; or a township vs. a town, etc. When we’re using different words for t

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 03:21 PM, Anthony wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Peter Budny wrote: So that would give us County -> admin_level=6 Township (if they exist) -> admin_level=7 City/municipality/town/village boundary -> admin_level=8 New Jersey and Pennsylvania townships should be at th

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 03:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: admin_level=7 it is. Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. Why the Dakotas? —Alex Mauer “hawke” ___ Tagging ma

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 03:01 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > >> > >> Townships are at the same level as cities/towns/villages/other > >> municipalities[1], [2]. I’m sure someone correct me if I’m wron

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread John F. Eldredge
Detroit is an example of areas being largely abandoned for economic reasons. It has been heavily dependent upon the automobile-manufacturing industry for decades, and as the market share of the US auto manufacturers shrunk, so did the number of jobs available in Detroit. It is a larger-scale v

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: In Pennsylvania: "School districts can comprise of one single municipality, like the School District of Philadelphia or can comprise of multiple municipalities." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Pennsylvania) So, are Pennsylvania school d

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Alex Mauer wrote: > On 10/20/2010 03:23 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >>> >>> admin_level=7 it is. >> >> Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and >> apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. > > Why the Dakotas? Read the li

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Anthony wrote: > Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: > > In Pennsylvania: "School districts can comprise of one single > municipality, like the School District of Philadelphia or can comprise > of multiple municipalities." > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loca

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Anthony wrote: >> Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: >> >> In Pennsylvania:  "School districts can comprise of one single >> municipality, like the School District of Philadelphia or can comprise >>

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Budny
Anthony writes: > Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: > > In Pennsylvania: "School districts can comprise of one single > municipality, like the School District of Philadelphia or can comprise > of multiple municipalities." > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Pennsylvania) >

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Anthony wrote: >>> Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: >>> >>> In Pennsylvania:  "School districts can comprise of one single >>> municipality, like

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 04:12 PM, Anthony wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Anthony wrote: Okay, here's another wrench to throw in: In Pennsylvania: "School districts can comprise of one single municipality, like the School District of Ph

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread john
One example of a difference would be whether or not cities are subordinate to counties. In Tennessee, for example, both cities and towns are subordinate to counties, which in turn are subordinate to the state. In Virginia, towns are subordinate to counties, which are then subordinate to the sta

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. FYI, it's the same with Minnesota: cities and townships are legally different forms of municipalities (one incorporated, o

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge : > Dieter Driest may have heard a garbled description of "urban renewal", a > now-largely-discredited urban-planning technique where large areas of > substandard housing were torn down and replaced by government-built public > housing, what the British would term cou

Re: [Tagging] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/10/20 John F. Eldredge : > Detroit has had some notable riots, particularly during the civil-rights >struggle of the 1960s, but the economic collapse began a generation later. and now look when the demolishions were planned and executed. cheers, Martin

Re: [Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

2010-10-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Not that it matters greatly for this discussion, but in Minnesota municipalities do include cities and townships. Ex: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?year=2010&id=462.352 (subd. 2) or https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=200.02 (subd. 9). Definitions aren't the same in every state... On W

Re: [Tagging] Is highway=service, service=drive_thru a good idea?

2010-10-20 Thread Sean Horgan
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 15:46, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Anthony wrote: > > I'm not aware of any hyphens which are converted into underscores, let > alone > > that this is "predominantly" the case. And even if it is "predominantly" > > man_made=pier > power=sub_sta