On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> 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 both >> “city|village|etc.” and “township” simultaneously; cities et al. can >> annex portions of townships easily, but they then are no longer part of >> that township. > > Scratch that. Eleven states allow overlap[1]: > > Indiana, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, > Nebraska, New York, Ohio, and Vermont
(note that these are not all called townships: http://www.census.gov/govs/go/township_terms.html) > > 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. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
