Clay, Thank you for bringing this up. I have a number of thoughts on this issue, so it may take me a bit to get to the proposal in your email.
First, I think that this is a good illustration of why some of us would like all administrative data taken out of OSM and moved into another dataset. The maintenance of it is quite complex and even in areas where it seems objective, is not. Secondly, I think for any major area change, such as this, I'd like to suggest you touch base with the OSM US Import Committee, even though this is not an import, it will have similar effects as one (effecting a large, very populated area in many ways). Thirdly. I'd like to suggest you meet with other OSMers in NYC to discuss. Since we're having a mapping party next weekend, this seems like a good time to introduce yourself and discuss this proposal. Fourthly, I'm going to assume that your proposal is *just* to change NYC and the 5 boroughs, right? If not, then this needs discussion on a larger scale. Fifth, I have some concerns about granularity. By doing this, you've effectively made admin level 10 the last usable admin level that we currently measure. In your NYC example, 9 becomes the borough, but that means 10 has to be "neighborhoods" on a very gross level. For example, do you differentiate between Greenwich Village''s West and East Village? I certainly do, and I think most New Yorkers would, but they're both part of the Village itself. My other big question is "What does this solve?", in other words, what problem are you seeing that needs correction by this action? - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
