Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Peter Budny <pet...@gatech.edu> wrote: >> Anthony <o...@inbox.org> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Jim McAndrew <j...@loc8.us> wrote: >>>> There are townships in other states that are managed differently, but in PA >>>> and NJ, they are just county subdivisions, and are not points to put on a >>>> map. >>> >>> I think you're right here, though I probably would indicate the >>> township boundaries on most maps in a similar (though somewhat less >>> prominent) manner to county boundaries - at least at certain zoom >>> levels. >> >> It sounds like you may have just found a use for the missing >> admin_level=7 in the US. > > What's wrong with admin_level=8?
According to Wikipedia, many townships are an intermediate form of government below the county level but above (or sometimes merely separate from) a city/municipality, although it varies by state (New Jersey being one of the exceptions). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_of_the_United_States #Townships_in_the_United_States So that would give us County -> admin_level=6 Township (if they exist) -> admin_level=7 City/municipality/town/village boundary -> admin_level=8 These would apply to the border of the thing, while something else (probably a relation) would indicate what it is for labelling purposes. Example: merged city-county governments (Louisville-Jefferson and Lexington-Fayette, both in Kentucky) would have borders with admin_level=6 but would be tagged as cities, because they need to have a dot placed in the city center. (They would probably /also/ be tagged with a county relation/tag/whatever.) -- Peter Budny \ Georgia Tech \ CS PhD student \ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
