Steve, I don't have the patience to put up with discussions about admin levels. As you know they can drag on forever. I did post a link to the discussion on the Connecticut Slack channel. Maybe that will get more people involved.
Good luck, Clifford On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 11:31 PM stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > If you fancy yourself (or know one!) a political scientist steeped enough > in US law, history and politics sufficient to discuss subtle, nuanced > topics like Home Rule and Dillon's law, a Discussion in our wiki could use > your wisdom and guidance. > > As the OSM community in USA discussed boundary=administrative at length in > 2017, admin_level got "mostly" hashed out, with a "settled" consensus about > COGs, MPOs, SPDs and their ilk. (Briefly, admin_level=2 federal, 4 state, > 6 county and 8 city/town are rough rungs, 7 emerged for townships and 5 is > the multi-county glom-of-6s New York City, OSM's only 5 in the USA). But > COGs/MPOs/SPDs and their ilk stuck in many craws and apparently is > difficult for some, even many. > > The topic is active again at > https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:United_States_admin_level#Recently_added_Connecticut_COG_.28Regions.29_as_5_and_CDP_as_10_should_be_deleted > and seems to need the assistance of seasoned political scientists who can > say whether a COG in Connecticut, for example, is "a government" or not. > (I say a COG/MPO is a LIMITED government, like a sewer district, so isn't > "really" a "full spectrum" government, therefore shouldn't get an > admin_level value, as this key associates with boundary=administrative). > > Some Wikipedia links to "Home Rule in the USA" and "Dillon's Rule" are > clickable at the end of that long Discussion, then I "run out of > intellectual gas." Please help this Discussion if you have this sort of > knowledge / wisdom to contribute. > > Thank you, > SteveA > California > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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