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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hello all,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I'm not sure if this
applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I would ask
here.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">In Ontario there is a
concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA" for short) that
has the power to tax businesses within their zone (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx">http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx</a> for details). <br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I want to tag these in
OSM, so then you can run a query to find all businesses within a
BIA. Sometimes the boundaries of the BIA are very tight and just
cover things that are actual businesses, and sometimes the
boundaries of a BIA are very loose and cover lots of area
including residential... and when a new business comes up later
in that area it automatically is a part of the BIA.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I am thinking that the
<b>relation type=boundary, boundary=local_authority </b>might
be applicable here, and define either a Canada specific
definition maybe just Ontario, depending if the concept exists
elsewhere.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I would like to get
people's opinion on this idea.... Or please suggest something
else.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aboundary%3Dlocal_authority">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aboundary%3Dlocal_authority</a><br>
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<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:type"
title="Key:type">type</a></bdi>=<a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:type%3Dboundary"
class="mw-redirect" title="Tag:type=boundary"><bdi>boundary</bdi></a></tt></li>
<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary"
title="Key:boundary">boundary</a></bdi>=<a
class="mw-selflink selflink"><bdi>local_authority</bdi></a></tt></li>
<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name"
title="Key:name">name</a></bdi>=*</tt></li>
<li><tt dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6"><bdi
style="white-space:nowrap"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:local_authority:FR&action=edit&redlink=1"
class="new" title="Key:local authority:FR (page does not
exist)">local_authority:CA</a></bdi></tt><tt dir="ltr"
class="mw-content-ltr"
style="background:#EEF;font-size:1em;line-height:1.6">=BIA</tt></li>
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