On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 7:11 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have never understood why people wanted to add place tags to administrative > territorial entities like countries, states or municipalities. Aren’t these > thoroughly defined with boundary=administrative and the related admin_level?
Around here, it's because there are a fair number of places that don't have any form of self-government, but are still identifiable villages. Their boundaries are generally indefinite, but those that live in them would give the names of those places when asked for their home town. In New York State, these get mapped (admin_level=8) if their boundaries are definite (generally, fixed by defining legislation of the township of which they are a part), and as place=* nodes otherwise. They range in size from settlements with a handful of houses to small cities with populations up to about 60,000. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
