[Tagging] [Talk-us] how to tag US townships?

[Alex Mauer]

On 10/20/2010 03:21 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Peter Budny<peterb at gatech.edu>  wrote:
>> So that would give us
>>
>> County ->  admin_level=6
>> Township (if they exist) ->  admin_level=7
>> City/municipality/town/village boundary ->  admin_level=8
>
> New Jersey and Pennsylvania townships should be at the same
> admin_level as cities and boroughs.
>
> As for "municipality", in NJ and PA, that means city, borough, or
> township (or, in NJ, town or village).

I’ve updated the wiki to reflect this.

> Other states would potentially be different.  In Florida, towns,
> cities, and villages (which are all just different terms for the same
> thing, "municipality")would all be admin_level=8, because they're all
> the same thing.

They’re actually not the same thing, but they are all municipalities.

> But Florida is not fully incorporated, so not all
> areas of Florida would exist within an admin_level=8.

Florida doesn’t use townships anyway, so it’s not really relevant.

—Alex Mauer “hawke”