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> On 1 Apr 2017, at 00:19, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
> So I think we probably need a new relation member in addition to
> admin_centre which is just "centre", meaning a node which is the
> human-geography center of the administrative unit.
For reference, I have recently written
Kevin Kenny writes:
> I tag boundaries when there are boundaries. In many places in suburban
> New York, the hamlets (not self-governing in any way) have well known
> boundaries, and the locals can tell you with some consistency who does
> and does not live in the named community.
That sounds f
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> This is definitely messy. Legally, in Massachusetts we have cities and
> towns, both admin_level=8; they are the same thing, but (slightly
> oversimplifying in a way that doesn't matter for this dicussion)
> governed by city council vs town me
Martin Koppenhoefer writes:
> 2017-03-27 16:38 GMT+02:00 Kevin Kenny :
>
>> But now I see that the places - for example, Fort Montgomery, NY
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175462 - no longer have their names
>> rendered on the map. Are municipalities a special case, where the point tag
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Brad Neuhauser
wrote:
> Two issues:
>
> 1) Recommended OSM tagging for place=* on smaller settlements is on the
> wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Populated_
> settlements.2C_urban_and_rural You can see it's based mainly on
> population and is
Two issues:
1) Recommended OSM tagging for place=* on smaller settlements is on the
wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:place#Populated_settlements.2C_urban_and_rural
You can see it's based mainly on population and is not directly correlated
to the form of government. Seems like admin_lev
2017-03-27 18:33 GMT+02:00 Kevin Kenny :
> Local convention in New York is to follow the legal definitions. Fort
> Montgomery is legally a hamlet. New York has a few 'hamlets' that are
> actually small cities. (Levittown, population about 52,000, is the largest
> of these.)
I understand that l
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As a side note, your example Fort Montgomery, NY, to me doesn't look like
> a hamlet, there's an elementary school, shops, a fire department, gas
> station, hotel, cafe, sports grounds, and a significant amoun
2017-03-27 16:38 GMT+02:00 Kevin Kenny :
> But now I see that the places - for example, Fort Montgomery, NY
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175462 - no longer have their names
> rendered on the map. Are municipalities a special case, where the point tag
> has to be retained to represent th
