[Talk-us] [Imports-us] [Talk-us-newyork] LAST CALL - Retagging of place nodes in NewYork State

[Kevin Kenny]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:10 PM Minh Nguyen <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>
wrote:

> Kevin has also done plenty of legwork on distinguishing places with
> matching names at different levels of government, which is important for
> avoiding misunderstandings.


What's worse is the case of adjacent places with matching names at the
_same_ level of government. There are about a dozen places where a
chartered city (admin_level=7) has been carved out of a township of the
same name (also admin_level=7). The two are entirely independent of one
another.

Example: Town of Plattsburgh https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13562904
containing City of Plattsburgh https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/175544
.  This was the use case for `place=municipality`. The remainder of the
township has no real center - its center has been removed from it, so there
was no 'center of population` to bear a label.

In at least one case (I'd have to search to find it), the town hall of the
township is located in the city - and therefore outside the town's
territory. (There are other extraterritorial administrative centers, such
as cases where two or three nearby villages will share space for their
government offices.)

-- 
73 de ke9tv/2, Kevin
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