[Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits

[Pierre Béland]

I should have written

This is not a semantic question about if Edmonton is a county or a city.


 
Pierre 



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> De : Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr>
>À : James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>; talk-ca <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> 
>Envoyé le : Samedi 10 novembre 2012 10h23
>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits
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>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.
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>Discussions on the talk_fr list indicate that we have to duplicate polygons for each level for entities such as Edmonton .
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> 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.
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>Pierre 
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>>________________________________
>> De : James Ewen <ve6srv at gmail.com>
>>À : talk-ca <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> 
>>Envoyé le : Vendredi 9 novembre 2012 21h44
>>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Edmonton / Strathcona boundary limits
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>>On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
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>>> In BC everywhere is part of a regional district (our admin_level=6). We
>>> don't have counties.
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>>We don't have counties in Alberta either... the county act was
>>repealed in the mid 90's, but a number of the municipalities still use
>>the term county in their name. Saskatchewan also
 does not have
>>counties, but rather rural municipalities. Rural municipalities in
>>Saskatchewan and Manitoba not only exclude cities, but also towns,
>>villages and First Nation's reserves as well.
>>
>>Interestingly, the State of Virginia also excludes cities from their
>>surrounding counties similar to what Alberta does.
>>
>>Danville, Virginia is defined at admin level 8, with a corresponding
>>hole at admin level 6...
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>>http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=12&lat=36.58549&lon=-79.37527&layers=B00FFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFF
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>>-- 
>>James
>>VE6SRV
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