<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:10 PM Minh Nguyen <<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Kevin has also done plenty of legwork on distinguishing places with <br>
matching names at different levels of government, which is important for <br>
avoiding misunderstandings. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>What's worse is the case of adjacent places with matching names at the _same_ level of government. There are about a dozen places where a chartered city (admin_level=7) has been carved out of a township of the same name (also admin_level=7). The two are entirely independent of one another.</div><div><br></div><div>Example: Town of Plattsburgh <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13562904">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13562904</a> containing City of Plattsburgh <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175544">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175544</a> . This was the use case for `place=municipality`. The remainder of the township has no real center - its center has been removed from it, so there was no 'center of population` to bear a label. </div><div><br></div><div>In at least one case (I'd have to search to find it), the town hall of the township is located in the city - and therefore outside the town's territory. (There are other extraterritorial administrative centers, such as cases where two or three nearby villages will share space for their government offices.)</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin</div></div>