On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: > Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: > >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Alex Mauer <ha...@hawkesnest.net> wrote: >>> On 10/21/2010 08:06 AM, Anthony wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Greg Troxel<g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> So if we have whole-multiple-counties=5 (eg >>>>> NYC) county=6 township=7 city/town=8 then it would make sense >>>>> everywhere. >>>> >>>> What would be an example of a township that would be at admin_level=7? >> >> This question of mine was quoted but still not answered. > > To summarize/quote from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_of_the_United_States
[snip] > So in at least some cases, there's a need for admin_level=7 to > express the hierarchy correctly. What would be an example of a township that would be at admin_level=7? I'm not saying you're wrong. I just couldn't come up with an example. The townships that I've seen which overlap with cities/towns aren't administrative areas, they just settlements. >>>> So...if they don't do that much, should they be mapped as admin_level? >>>> I was told that school districts don't count, because they don't do >>>> enough, which has me totally confused as to what it is we're supposed >>>> to be mapping. >>> >>> It’s not about whether they do that much; it’s about whether they’re >>> administered by a government. School boards are a part of the government >>> yes, but they’re don’t govern the districts that they cover. >> >> Absolutely they do. [snip] > Because they are specialized, rather than general-purpose, I don't see > how school districts belong in admin_level=. Fair enough, but that's a completely different argument from "they don't govern the districts that they cover". I'm not sure what "general-purpose" means, either. There are a lot of counties, as pointed out, which don't do much of anything (in fact, there are a lot of counties that don't do anything at all). > What Anthony wrote seemed quite clear. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
