Seems like out here in Kansas/Nebraska a lot of cities are a member of some "tri-city" region but I think it is almost always made up by the local weather man who just wants a quick way to refer to "this area here" while pointing at his magic green screen. It is nothing I would want to see on a map.
For example I have often seen Kearney, Hastings and Grand Island called "the tri-cities" by local TV stations. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=40.821&lon=-98.641&zoom=9&layers=M I think they may have a hockey team that is kind of a shared interest between the cities but other than that I don't think there is much interaction between them and I wouldn't see any need to enter this information into OSM. Toby On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:40 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Another example is the Tri-Cities area in northeast Tennessee (Bristol, > Kingsport, and Johnson City). Certain facilities, such as the Tri-Cities > Airport, are shared. Road signs refer to both the Tri-Cities area and the > individual cities. Since Bristol extends across the state line, > administratively it is two cities, namely Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, > Virginia. > > -------Original Email------- > Subject :Re: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities > From :mailto:[email protected] > Date :Thu Feb 24 08:19:55 America/Chicago 2011 > > > Officially, there are the Census Metropolitan Statistical Areas, which are > roughly equivalent to many of the colloquially used metro areas. These are > not administrative regions, although some may coincide with some > administrative regions. I do think it would be valuable to somehow tag these > areas. > > James > > On Thursday 24 February 2011 08:58:02 McGuire, Matthew wrote: >> Without knowing the area, I can only speculate that "Tri-Cities" is a >> locally common name for the entire metro, but assuming it is, I like the >> way it looks on Mapnik, so it seems like a case of tagging for the >> renderer. How about "place=metro"? >> >> More could be done with metro areas. For example, OSM Mapnik renders the >> Saint Paul label at a 'higher' level than Minneapolis. Is there some way >> to identify Minneapolis as the largest city of the metro area and Saint >> Paul as the Capitol of the State of Minnesota? I don't see anything in the >> Map Features tags that would allow this. Locally, the entire metro area is >> frequently known as "The Twin Cities", and together Minneapolis and Saint >> Paul are a primate city. >> >> I don't know of a way to represent (data-wise) the metro areas as one >> single place. The result is, I'm now looking at a map with labels for >> Trenton, Wilmington, Newark, Huntington NY, and Stamford CT but not New >> York City and Philadelphia. A place=metro tag and relations would allow >> that - if the renderer so chose. >> >> Matt >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:07 PM >> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools; OpenStreetMap talk-us list >> Subject: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities >> >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/876536239 >> There's no city named Tri-Cities; this is the name of the metropolitan >> area that comprises Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland. I assume there's no >> defensible reason to keep it tagged as such, but what should be done >> about it? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to > think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
