On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Alex Mauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/20/2010 03:24 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> >> Not all US states use the same administrative hierarchy. > > Yeah, but for example we use the same admin_level regardless of whether it’s > called a county, a borough, or a parish; or a township vs. a town, etc. > > When we’re using different words for the same thing[1], there’s no need to > differentiate. It’s the thing we care about, not the word used for it. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_civil_division
So far all (three) of the states I've checked fit fine with admin_level=6 for county equivalent, and admin_level=8 for municipality. I'm not sure if that'll work for the other 47, though. If it does, great. If not, use the current standards for the default and then have a different hierarchy for the exceptions? At the very least it would be nice to have a table outlining exactly what "municipality" or "minor civil division" means for each state. Is there one somewhere already? Should I start one? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
