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

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Troxel
This discussion, although amazingly lengthy is seeming useful. Someone already explained that much of New England is different from most of the United States in terms of not having unicorporated areas, and it might help to explain details. In Massachusetts, we have counties. Counties don't do

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

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Alex Mauer ha...@hawkesnest.net 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

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

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Troxel
Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com writes: Read the link you provided: In the remaining nine town or township states (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Wisconsin), there is no geographic overlapping of these two

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

2010-10-21 Thread Anthony
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? On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:29 AM,

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

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Ricker
Maine still has unincorporated cartesian townships with names like Township 7 Range 4. This is timber country with few permanent settlements. A few have recieved names, likely by incorporation (idk). iirc, in Maine the legal difference between town and city is as in Mass from which it separated,

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

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/21/2010 08:06 AM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Greg Troxelg...@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

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

2010-10-21 Thread Alex Mauer
On 10/21/2010 08:15 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Maine still has unincorporated cartesian townships with names like Township 7 Range 4. This is timber country with few permanent settlements. A few have recieved names, likely by incorporation (idk). From my quick understanding, those would be

Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - social facility

2010-10-21 Thread Sean Horgan
Hello again everyone. The last day of voting for the Social Facility proposal is tomorrow, 22 Oct. The proposal can be found on the wiki here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/social_facility http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/social_facilityWith 13 votes,

[Tagging] Amenity key

2010-10-21 Thread Sean Horgan
Hello everyone! From searching through the tagging mailing list archives, the Amenity key has its share of supporters and detractors and the topic seems to frequently rear its head. I can see both sides and like many of the tagging issues, it comes down to semantics. I think a lot of the

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

2010-10-21 Thread Ant The Limey
Couple of thoughts A) I agree/support it's not hierarchichal / A contains B but more whether A is just larger than B, regardless of whether a particular B is fully contained within, or reports to a particular B B) i don't feel that any particular tag should necessarily have a global level of

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

2010-10-21 Thread Anthony
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 Troxelg...@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

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

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Ant The Limey anttheli...@gmail.com wrote: PS: I will buy beers at SOTM 2011 for anyone who can sing the Jibrovian national anthem to me :) That's one more beer for IvanSanchezOrtega. ___ Tagging mailing list

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

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Budny
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 Troxelg...@ir.bbn.com  wrote: So if we have whole-multiple-counties=5 (eg NYC) county=6 township=7

Re: [Tagging] [OSM-talk] Amenity key

2010-10-21 Thread Peter Körner
Am 21.10.2010 23:29, schrieb Sean Horgan: The definition of such a tag/key that is so common the database (3+% according to taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/amenity), needs more than a single line definition. Do you have a suggestion? Peter