On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 6:22 AM Simon Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > The weird thing is the mixing of place and administrative entities which > actually leads to the inversion issues, go back read your text and you > will find it difficult to determine when you are talking about one or > the other.
You're right, and I should have referred to Hamlet, Village, Town, and City - capitalized - when speaking of the political entities. (I missed doing that.) We do *not* use the political organization in place=*. There's no inversion in the place=* hierarchy. The City (capital C, the political entity) of Sherrill, for instance is (or ought to be, I haven't checked lately whether it's still right) mapped place=village. The Hamlet (capital H) of Brentwood should be place=city or place=suburb - I don't recall how far out the locals down that way decided to extend suburbia in their mapping, and they're more qualified than I am to make that decision. place=* is generally tagged on a point representing the cultural/political center of the place - often near a town square, post office, city hall, courthouse, railroad station or similar identifiable "middle", not a geographic center. We don't tag the boundary with place=*. There are some administrative entities (some suburban Towns come to mind) that really are political divisions without identifiable 'places' - and those just get boundary=administrative without a corresponding place=* The only tagging that follows the legal designation of Hamlet, Village, Town, City, and County or Borough is boundary=administrative. The political organization is encoded in admin_level=*. There are some corner cases in admin_level - but those mirror the messy structure of our government. For example, the five Counties/Boroughs that make up New York City have ceded their legislative powers (and most of their executive powers as well) to the City, but retain an independent judiciary. (We made up a sui generis admin_level=3 for New York City.) We do not invert place=*. If it's inverted, it's mistagged. We do occasionally invert the topology of boundary=administrative, but that reflects reality in that the way our municipal governments are organized also inverts admin_level. Odd things happen when your form of govenrment is ad-hoc-cracy. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
