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<p>Hi Lester, can you provide a link to the ONS data you are referring to?</p>
<p>On 2015-09-14 16:39, Lester Caine wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On 14/09/15 15:18, Richard Symonds wrote:
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<br /> Not going to happen.<br /><br /> Wish list!<br /><br /> On OSM some places have all their is_in: tags for parish, ward, county.<br /> Some rely on having enclosing boundaries to provide that information,<br /> and some have nothing where many of the boundaries are still missing.<br /><br /> For the UK we have the whole hierarchy from the ONS data so there is no<br /> need to create it, we simply need an agreed method to use it. We could<br /> create all the is_in: tags from the data so we can search and find all<br /> of x in y, or we could pass that off to a third party such as wikidata<br /> where we just add a link to the whole gamut of what can be added virtual<br /> data wise.<br /><br /> Currently all the wikipedia links are being added but I think that to<br /> use wikidata efficiently one has to use the designated ID rather than<br /> the name? Since Facebook insist on using the names as defined by<br /> wikipedia this is where my problem originally arose since they only add<br /> county when wikipedia do so often you have no idea which is the right<br /> place to use. What is used as a link has other consequences!<br /><br /> It does still not get around needing the boundaries IN OSM so one can<br /> click anywhere in an area and identify which of multiple zones it is<br /> actually in. Adding this data to the places does not fill that hole :(</div>
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