[Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities

[john at jfeldredge.com]

Another example is the Tri-Cities area in northeast Tennessee (Bristol, Kingsport, and Johnson City).  Certain facilities, such as the Tri-Cities Airport, are shared.  Road signs refer to both the Tri-Cities area and the individual cities.  Since Bristol extends across the state line, administratively it is two cities, namely Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia.

-------Original Email-------
Subject :Re: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities
From  :mailto:jumbanho at gmail.com
Date  :Thu Feb 24 08:19:55 America/Chicago 2011


Officially, there are the Census Metropolitan Statistical Areas, which are 
roughly equivalent to many of the colloquially used metro areas.  These are 
not administrative regions,  although some may coincide with some 
administrative regions.  I do think it would be valuable to somehow tag these 
areas.

James

On Thursday 24 February 2011 08:58:02 McGuire, Matthew wrote:
> Without knowing the area, I can only speculate that "Tri-Cities" is a
> locally common name for the entire metro, but assuming it is, I like the
> way it looks on Mapnik, so it seems like a case of tagging for the
> renderer. How about "place=metro"?
> 
> More could be done with metro areas. For example, OSM Mapnik renders the
> Saint Paul label at a 'higher' level than Minneapolis. Is there some way
> to identify Minneapolis as the largest city of the metro area and Saint
> Paul as the Capitol of the State of Minnesota? I don't see anything in the
> Map Features tags that would allow this. Locally, the entire metro area is
> frequently known as "The Twin Cities", and together Minneapolis and Saint
> Paul are a primate city.
> 
> I don't know of a way to represent (data-wise) the metro areas as one
> single place. The result is, I'm now looking at a map with labels for
> Trenton, Wilmington, Newark, Huntington NY, and Stamford CT but not New
> York City and Philadelphia.  A place=metro tag and relations would allow
> that - if the renderer so chose.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Edgars II [mailto:neroute2 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 10:07 PM
> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools; OpenStreetMap talk-us list
> Subject: [Talk-us] place=city name=Tri-Cities
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/876536239
> There's no city named Tri-Cities; this is the name of the metropolitan
> area that comprises Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland. I assume there's no
> defensible reason to keep it tagged as such, but what should be done
> about it?
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

_______________________________________________
Talk-us mailing list
Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

-- 
John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria