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Subject: EDXL - political subdivisions
Regarding our proposed <targetArea> tags for political subdivisions in the EDXL Distribution Element, on further thought I'd like to suggest we make the following changes: Rename <country> as <nation>; rename <primaryJurisdiction> as <primaryDivision>; and, rename <secondaryJurisdiction> as <secondaryDivision>. Also, I think maybe we may need to ensure that each subdivision is clearly bound to one and only one higher-level political boundary. (E.g., "Hamilton" might be a secondaryDivision in both Ohio and Ontario.) So maybe these need to be structured as nested elements instead of peers. And of course I think we want to remember in the data dictionary to depreciate the use of political area names in favor of explicit geospatial representations (circles and polygons). We don't want to encourage the construction of string-matching applications, even though we may have to accomodate them for the time being. - Art
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