Can someone explain the type field from the hierarchy table? When I do a 'select distinct' on it i get 41 results that seem like a complete grab bag of results. Is this field actually used? Is it just some random tag that gets assigned?
Code:
type | count
--------------------------------------+--------
| 176632
lugar | 2
2 | 1
okres žďár nad sázavou | 1
adm4 | 1
žďár nad sázavou | 1
stadtteil | 12
municipality | 1
children | 2
parent | 1
dependency | 56
identical | 1
usa | 1
serving | 1
geography | 21
university building | 8
second-order administrative division | 1
jp_region | 47
amt | 1802
un m49 region | 238
ceremonial county | 161
contains | 1
quartier | 1
campus building | 4
hotel u rausu | 1
freguesia | 1
RGN | 212
fusion | 2
tourism | 395
division | 1
city | 1
adm1 | 1
first-order administrative division | 1
member of the commonwealth | 52
ADM | 346265
census designated place | 3
child | 4
ADM1 | 62
comarca | 937
adm | 17
part of the village | 1