You might want to take a look at how Virginia is mapped. Cities in Virginia
are not considered to be subordinate to counties, even if surrounded on all
sides by a county. Towns, on the other hand, are subordinate to, and part of,
counties.
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So I propose a different schema:
>
> New York Boroughs: 9
> Cities (incl. NYC): 8
> Counties: 6
>
> and have separate relations for the counties and boroughs (e.g.
> Brooklyn
> and Kings County), sharing the same ways.
>
> Your proposal sounds entirely reasonable to me. The notion that
> cities
> are contained within a county is baked into the hierarchical
> organization, and something has to give when that isn't true. Letting
> the hierarchy not line up seems better than choosing different levels.
>
> In the old way, there's the awkward question about how L5 should be
> rendered, and why it should look different than L8, and that's all
> unnnecessary mess.
>
> Your proposal defers the interesting choice to the renderer, which is
> whether one cares about counties or boroughs, but such deferring is in
> my view a feature.
>
>
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