On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:11 AM, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/29/2012 11:56 PM, Skye Book wrote: > >>> Do we have a source for NYC administrative boundaries? > > > http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/districtsmetadata.shtml
I'm not sure of the license situation with any of the NYC.gov datasets. I've gotten different answers from different people I've talked to. Some people in some offices say that it's fine as long as we take certain steps, others say it's not, and others have different views altogether. I'm working to get some authoritative data on this. While I'm generally not a big fan of imports, administrative boundries are hard to do in another way, and as Richard Welty points out, it's generally a good thing to replace these nodes with true polygons, and then we can also use data sources to fill in population tags. >>> And what are boroughs in terms of "place"? I'm thinking county- though >>> that's not right. Certainly the populations should be added. > > > The boroughs of New York are counties; confusingly, the borough names > and the (coterminous) county names don't always match: > > Borough County > > The Bronx Bronx County > Manhattan New York County > Staten Island Richmond County > Brooklyn Kings County > Queens Queens County Indeed that is confusing. Off the top of my head, I see two simple solutions: 1. We tag the areas as counties, but use the "common names" as the primary name, and these official names as alt_name. 2. We create a new administrative relation that has the same geometry as the county. I would lean towards the first, as it means less data and more clarification. Thoughts? - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
