[OSM-talk] administrative boundaries and is_in

[Robin Paulson]

On 11/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman at poczta.fm> wrote:
> Robin Paulson wrote:
> > On 11/01/2008, Lukasz Stelmach <stlman at poczta.fm> wrote:
> >> Do you mean that a commune (the lowest level of self government) can
> >> be part of more than one unit of each of higher levels? Like this?
> >
> > yes. some examples:
> >
> > Franklin district in new zealand lies partly in auckland region,
> > partly in waikato region
>
> Are those regions admistrative units? I've never been to New Zeland,
> it's the other end of the world for me ;)

yes. i'm not well up on it, maybe franklin is entirely governed by the
ARC (auckland regional council) for simplicity's sake? OTOH,
government is rarely logical

> > i think turkey lies partly in europe, partly in asia?
>
> Bad example ;-) We there are no comtinental governments, yet.
> Spealing about administrative boundaries.

ok, but we still need to distinguish between the two. i think i've
lost sight of where this discussion was going.....

> > the kansas city metro area lies in missouri and kansas (US)
>
> Ok, how about its administration. To which governor must a mayor of
> kansas city suck up? I'm pretty sure that not to both. Maybe the
> "metro area" has som independence? Then I would draw it like this.

yes, that may be true, but still boundaries at a high level do not
have to coincide with boundaries at a low level. i think that was
where this all started