[Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

[Greg Troxel]

stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> writes:

> Except, and I don't mean to split hairs needlessly here, a "county" in
> 46 states (or 48 if we count county-equivalents in Alaska and
> Louisiana) isn't the same thing as a county in two (Rhode Island and
> Connecticut).  So, in the above scenario when you describe "using them
> to visualize..." they are not equivalents.  IMO, OSM should delineate
> this, and years ago we evolved a tagging scheme that does so, in the

But we are fundamentally tagging the  wrong thing, even if groupthink
led to consensus.  In the US there is a strong notion of county, even if
CT/RI, and those lines should show up on rendered maps.   Deciding that
the tag that everybody expects to use should mean something different
from what essentially all map users want to know is not helpful.