On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 5:50 PM Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't map special-purpose administrative districts, of which New > York has a whole menagerie. I don't object if others do, but don't try > to fit them into the boundary=administrative hierarchy. They don't > go. In New York, the admin_levels are as tabulated on the Wiki: 2=US > 4=NY 5=New York City (don't ask!) 6=county > *7=city, town, Indian Reservation* 8=village, hamlet (outside cities), > ward, district, > precinct, community board (in cities). There are only a few ways in > which this scheme breaks hierarchy (New York City, one other city that > has annexed across a county line, a chartered city that has in > practice reverted to being a village, and about 15% of villages are in > two or more towns.). If things like school, library, police, fire, > water, sewer, or sanitation districts were to be included, the > hierarchy would be broken all over the place. And that only scratches > the surface of special-purpose administrative districts. As I said, go > ahead and map them, but don't try to make admin_level fit. > > This is a little off topic for the discussion on administrative boundaries but... Indian reservations boundaries should be mapped as boundary=aboriginal_lands instead of an admin level. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Daboriginal_lands I've added a number of reservations, mostly in my state of Washington. I suspect there are a good number of unmapped reservations in the US. Best, Clifford -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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