On 10/20/2010 05:51 PM, Anthony wrote:
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Alex Mauer<[email protected]> wrote:
I’d put town at 7, city and village at 8, based on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York#Town and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_New_York#Village
Specifically, "Villages are a third layer of government, which are usually
overlaid inside a town, and co-administer with the town, county, and state."
and "To be incorporated, the area of the proposed village must have at least
500 inhabitants and not be part of an existing city or village."
I don't know. "Cities are neither part of nor subordinate to towns
except for the city of Sherrill, which for some purposes is treated as
if it were a village of the town of Vernon."
If you're going to use 7 and 8, wouldn't 7 be city/town, and 8 be
village? (Or, IMO more consistent with the rest of the US,
8=city/town and 9=village)?
I would, but villages are (by my understanding) closer to what any other
municipality is in the rest of the US.
I don’t think/know that a lower level (higher number) admin_level
necessarily implies that it must be, or can be, within a higher level
(lower number) admin_level. They’re just there to give an indication of
equivalence.
—Alex Mauer “hawke”
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