<html><head></head><body>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.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />So I propose a different schema:<br /><br />New York Boroughs: 9<br />Cities (incl. NYC): 8<br />Counties: 6<br /><br />and have separate relations for the counties and boroughs (e.g. Brooklyn<br />and Kings County), sharing the same ways.<br /><br />Your proposal sounds entirely reasonable to me. The notion that cities<br />are contained within a county is baked into the hierarchical<br />organization, and something has to give when that isn't true. Letting<br />the hierarchy not line up seems better than choosing different levels.<br /><br />In the old way, there's the awkward question about how L5 should be<br />rendered, and why it should look different than L8, and that's all<br />unnnecessary mess.<br /><br />Your proposal defers the interesting choice to the renderer, which is<br />whether one cares about counties or boroughs, but such deferring is in<br />my view a feature.<br /><br /></pre><p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;
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