[Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

[Richard Welty]

On 12/31/12 5:12 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote:
>
> I'd argue that not all governmental boundaries need to be tagged as 
> boundary=administrative. In Ohio, we've started to retag CDP 
> boundaries with boundary=census and place=locality but without 
> admin_level. [1][2] They still show up in Nominatim as localities.
this is approximately what i was thinking should be done with CDPs.
>
> In states that give civil townships some authority, they are much more 
> important to the identity of an unincorporated area than CDPs. The 
> TIGER boundary import excluded Ohio townships, so Vid the Kid and I 
> have been painstakinglly filling them in.
>
i have started filling in Towns in upstate NY as well. i don't mind 
identifying the Hamlets in some manner, but all they consist of 
typically is a boundary drawn by the Census, and some green-and-white 
signs posted by the NYS DOT in traditional locations by the road side. 
there's no government there, whereas the towns maintain roads, provide 
the framework for the volunteer fire districts, have a zoning & master 
plan functions, inspect buildings & construction, and so forth.

richard