Not that it matters greatly for this discussion, but in Minnesota municipalities do include cities and townships. Ex: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?year=2010&id=462.352 (subd. 2) or https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=200.02 (subd. 9). Definitions aren't the same in every state...
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/2010 04:07 PM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > >> Only in those states, of course. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey (and >>> apparently the Dakotas?) it should remain admin_level=8. >>> >>> >>> FYI, it's the same with Minnesota: cities and townships are legally >> different forms of municipalities (one incorporated, one unincorporated). >> > > No, that’s a contradiction in terms. “unincorporated” basically means > “outside of a municipality”. Hence people talking about New Jersey being > “fully incorporated” while Minnesota is not: Every place in NJ is part of a > municipality. > > > Minnesota also has unorganized areas, which are legally under the >> jurisdiction of the county, but which may have clusters of population that >> would warrant a place in OSM (call them what you will--village, hamlet >> whatever) >> > > Unsurprisingly, Wisconsin is similar. place=hamlet is the thing to use for > these, but it’s irrelevant to the admin_level as there is no administrative > boundary for unincorporated communities. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unincorporated_area discusses both of these > topics. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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