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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 18:39, Andrew Harvey <<a href="mailto:andrew.harvey4@gmail.com">andrew.harvey4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 11:21, cleary <<a href="mailto:osm@97k.com" target="_blank">osm@97k.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I looked at the Wiki. It is quite a while since I looked at the section on administrative boundaries. My recollection is that it used to have LGA as admin_level=6 and suburb as level 9 or 10. I do not recall any discussion of inclusion of regions, districts and townsites nor any previous discussion in regard to changing the level of LGA. The wiki includes a link to a downloadable example which is headed "Australian Boundary Tagging _ OSM" but with copyright attributed to Government of Western Australia. I am not sure how the current content of wiki was arrived at. My memory is not perfect so perhaps someone can remind me how the wiki content on administrative boundaries and the WA Government copyright document was reached.<br>
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In NSW there are land districts defined in legislation with administrative boards etc so they could be included if we could get permission to use the source data (not included in current approval as far as I am aware) and there are probably equivalents in other jurisdictions. I think administrative boundaries must be sourced from government. In NSW, land districts are larger in area than local government areas (LGAs) but their influence and importance is (in my view) much less than LGAs - the Greater Sydney Local Land Services board has the majority of its membership appointed by the Minister for Agriculture and few Sydney residents would even know of its existence or role. I'd want to put them at level 11, certainly not a higher level than the LGAs. I do not think that a larger area automatically warrants a higher administrative level.<br>
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I am open to changing and developing our guidelines. However some boundaries are not necessarily administrative e.g. Eyre Peninsula (natural region), Barossa Valley District (protected area), Illawarra Region, New England Region. Some boundaries might be tourist labels or have local currency but would need to be mapped as something other than administrative.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry I'm getting offtopic here...</div><div><br></div><div>I'm only familiar with NSW but for example we have a few non-administrative regions/districts mapped</div><div><br></div><div>Illawarra <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876497" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876497</a> tagged as place=region without an admin_level</div><div>Northern Beaches <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876483" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876483</a> tagged as place=district without an admin_level</div><div>Lower North Shore <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876484" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876484</a> tagged as place=district without an admin_level</div><div>Upper North Shore <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11373192" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11373192</a> tagged as place=district without an admin_level</div><div>St George <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876480" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7876480</a> tagged as place=district without an admin_level</div><div>others could be added like The Shire, South Coast, Hunter Valley, Central Coast, Hills District, Eastern Suburbs, Blue Mountains + regional regions/districts.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that these are not administrative boundaries so I'm fine with not giving them an admin_level, and it's a fair argument that these are not verifiable on the ground, but nonetheless they do exist and people refer to them frequently in conversation.</div><div><br></div><div>In terms of the admin_level for LGA's I think if we have administrative regions or not shouldn't really affect the admin_level value too much, I think going with what most other countries use for </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Reposting this as my reply only went to Cleary, not the list, & it seems important enough to follow up. Sorry if it's a bit messy & confused!<br></div><div><br></div><div>
<span class="gmail-im"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 at 11:21, cleary <<a href="mailto:osm@97k.com" target="_blank">osm@97k.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
I looked at the Wiki. It is quite a while since I looked at the section
on administrative boundaries. My recollection is that it used to have
LGA as admin_level=6 and suburb as level 9 or 10.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I had the same vague memory?</div><span class="gmail-im"><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> I
do not recall any discussion of inclusion of regions, districts and
townsites nor any previous discussion in regard to changing the level of
LGA.</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Did a bit of searching & it appears it was only changed on 15/7/20, but no, I certainly don't remember any discussion?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Admin_level_10&diff=prev&oldid=2012028" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Admin_level_10&diff=prev&oldid=2012028</a></div><div><br></div><div>Makes reference to "<span>Australian Tagging Review (2012 / 2016)", but that doesn't help me much either?</span>
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<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>