How to handle entities like BART? about ocd-division-ids HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi David,

Thanks for the question.

Transit entities that cross county lines are probably best served by
ignoring the hierarchy above them, which isn't really important for the
purposes of identification (there almost certainly isn't going to be a
second BART system we need to disambiguate from).

I'd probably go with ocd-division/country:us/state:ca/transit:bart

If there are named districts they can be added like
ocd-division/country:us/state:ca/transit:bart/district:3

or whatever the natural identifiers would be.

Hope this helps.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:31 PM, David Paschich
[email protected]:

First, love the work you're doing here. Just the sort of thing I need for
some other projects...

My question is how to handle entities like BART, the regional transit
authority in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It covers multiple counties, so can be defined in terms of the boundaries
of those counties. Its board is directly elected from equal-population
districts, which of necessity have boundaries which cross county lines. So
in a hierarchy, it's below the state, above the county.

But then you have entities like Colorado's Regional Transportation
District (RTD), which has an elected board, but whose boundaries are not
coterminous with the counties it serves.

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Got it, thanks!

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Interesting case. And I'm guessing that there are other such entities that cross state and even country boundaries. Aren't districts fun :)

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