<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This is not a semantic question about if Edmonton is a county of a city. This is more a technical matter related to OSM database design and sql tools. It is not well documented in the wiki.<br><br>Discussions on the talk_fr list indicate that we have to duplicate polygons for each level for entities such as Edmonton .<br><br> If you want to dig more about that and nobody can answer these questions on the talk-ca list, I suggest that you try on talk list.<br><br><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;
font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> James Ewen <ve6srv@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> talk-ca <talk-ca@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 9 novembre 2012 21h44<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits<br> </font> </div> <br>On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Paul Norman <<a ymailto="mailto:penorman@mac.com" href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> In BC everywhere is part of a regional district (our admin_level=6). We<br>> don't have counties.<br><br>We don't have counties in Alberta either... the county act was<br>repealed in the mid 90's, but a number of the municipalities still use<br>the term county in their name. Saskatchewan also
does not have<br>counties, but rather rural municipalities. Rural municipalities in<br>Saskatchewan and Manitoba not only exclude cities, but also towns,<br>villages and First Nation's reserves as well.<br><br>Interestingly, the State of Virginia also excludes cities from their<br>surrounding counties similar to what Alberta does.<br><br>Danville, Virginia is defined at admin level 8, with a corresponding<br>hole at admin level 6...<br><br><a href="http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=12&lat=36.58549&lon=-79.37527&layers=B00FFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFF" target="_blank">http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=12&lat=36.58549&lon=-79.37527&layers=B00FFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFF</a><br><br><br>-- <br>James<br>VE6SRV<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Talk-ca mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org">Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a
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