I should have written
This is not a semantic question about if Edmonton is a county or a city.
Pierre
>________________________________
> De : Pierre Béland <[email protected]>
>À : James Ewen <[email protected]>; talk-ca <[email protected]>
>Envoyé le : Samedi 10 novembre 2012 10h23
>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits
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>This is not a semantic question about if Edmonton is a county of a city. This
>is more a technical matter related to OSM database design and sql tools. It is
>not well documented in the wiki.
>
>Discussions on the talk_fr list indicate that we have to duplicate polygons
>for each level for entities such as Edmonton .
>
> If you want to dig more about that and nobody can answer these questions on
>the talk-ca list, I suggest that you try on talk list.
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>Pierre
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>>________________________________
>> De : James Ewen <[email protected]>
>>À : talk-ca <[email protected]>
>>Envoyé le : Vendredi 9 novembre 2012 21h44
>>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits
>>
>>On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> In BC everywhere is part of a regional district (our admin_level=6). We
>>> don't have counties.
>>
>>We don't have counties in Alberta either... the county act was
>>repealed in the mid 90's, but a number of the municipalities still use
>>the term county in their name. Saskatchewan also
does not have
>>counties, but rather rural municipalities. Rural municipalities in
>>Saskatchewan and Manitoba not only exclude cities, but also towns,
>>villages and First Nation's reserves as well.
>>
>>Interestingly, the State of Virginia also excludes cities from their
>>surrounding counties similar to what Alberta does.
>>
>>Danville, Virginia is defined at admin level 8, with a corresponding
>>hole at admin level 6...
>>
>>http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=12&lat=36.58549&lon=-79.37527&layers=B00FFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFF
>>
>>
>>--
>>James
>>VE6SRV
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