The definition of city varies from state to state. In Virginia, for
example, a city is at the same jurisdictional level as a county. It is not
part of a county, even if completely surrounded by the county.
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On November 9, 2015 11:50:09 PM Tod Fitch <[email protected]> wrote:
On Nov 9, 2015, at 8:42 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote:
maybe but i would do some more research before making an assumption.
i'm aware of many postal city addresses that are in different counties
than the
"real" cities and i believe there are at least 4 cases where postal delivery
crosses state lines.
What is a “city” in US specific OSM terms?
I prefer a postal city definition as that is the most useful for routing
purposes which I feel is the primary use of address data in OSM. Or are we
dealing with some other concept of addr:city?
Using Pine Valley, California, as have been my examples for other posts in
this thread, I see the administrative boundary for the city San Diego is
probably 30 miles away: The locations are neither within the boundary nor
in the postal delivery area for the city of San Diego. To me that clearly
indicates the addr:city=“San Diego" tags is wrong.
So what value to use for the addr:city tag values? There is an
administrative boundary around the area that looks like it is from the
original Tiger import with the name of “Pine Valley” as a “locality”. There
is a post office there with a “Pine Valley” sign on the building. The ZIP
codes that were imported on the change set for this area all are set to
91962. When I look up 91962 on the USPS official web site it returns “Pine
Valley, CA” and only “Pine Valley, CA”. The USPS result page also says
"Please use the default city whenever possible” which indicates they think
everyone should use “Pine Valley”. There is no county, state or national
border near by to confuse the issue.
Looking at adjacent “towns” (may only be census designated areas) I see the
same thing. Just look at Guatay, CA a little west on the old main highway
and you will see the same thing.
So what “more research before making an assumption” should be done in this
area? I suspect a theoretical problem with a hypothetical general case is
be being brought up when what I see in the data is a pretty straight
forward issue of bad data that can be corrected.
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