[Tagging] place or border_type ?

[Clifford Snow]

Counties in the US are tagged as admin_level=6 + boundary=administrative.

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative for
details for the US and other countries.

Best,
Clifford

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 6:48 PM Rob Savoye <rob at senecass.com> wrote:

>   While tracking down a problem with searching addresses in OsmAnd, I
> noticed the lack of a 'place' or 'border_type' tag in US state county
> boundary relations. I understand, don't hack for the renderer or search
> engine, so as a pure tagging issue, should boundaries for US counties
> within a state be tagged with 'place=county' ? Or should it  be
> 'border_type=county' ? Unfortunately neither is used in my state much,
> so was wondering the proper way to tag this.
>
>         - rob -
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