[Talk-us] Strange city boundary: Lee, Illinois

[Martijn van Exel]

Thanks for pointing it out, Walter.

As others have said, local admin boundaries and their hierarchies are weird from a European perspective. I am still trying to understand it.

The boundary may still be wrong. Many (all?) of the admin8 boundaries were imported almost 10 years ago. I wouldn’t be surprised if many have not been updated to reflect boundary updates. Time to put in an effort to re-check them? (Potentially a lot of work, in Utah alone there’s 295 admin8 relations.)

Martijn



> On Nov 14, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> 
> Yes - a city can cover more than one county in the US. I'm not familiar with your example, but we have Bothell, WA which is in both King and Snohomish County. 
> 
> Best,
> Clifford
> 
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:47 AM <wambacher at posteo.de <mailto:wambacher at posteo.de>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> are there cities (admin level 8) in the USA which  part of two counties?
> 
> see: https://wambachers-osm.website/images/osm/snaps_2018/lee.png <https://wambachers-osm.website/images/osm/snaps_2018/lee.png>
> left: Lee County
> 
> right: DeKalb County
> 
> there are some more, but i would like to know if that is ok. In Germany this is impossible.
> 
> Regards
> 
> walter/Germany 
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