<div dir="ltr">These counties, like Avon, created by Local Government Act 1972 in 1974 seem to still exist for fire services <a href="https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Fire-and-Rescue-Services">https://www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk/Fire-and-Rescue-Services</a> as well as used by other oragnisations like the BTO. <div><br></div><div>I suspect those that have been abolished can be defined as a collection of current councils. I do not think these should be in OSM. They can be constructed from the current councils. <br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Ian<br></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 11:01, Chris Hodges <<a href="mailto:chris@c-hodges.co.uk">chris@c-hodges.co.uk</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">Traditional counties (for some value of "traditional", that's not the <br>
same as ceremonial) are still used for some niche purposes. This is <br>
particularly obvious to me living in Avon, which is neither current nor <br>
ceremonial.<br>
<br>
One example is wildlife records - here's the British Trust for <br>
Ornithology's list of counties:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/birdtrack/bird-recording/county-bird-recorders" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/birdtrack/bird-recording/county-bird-recorders</a><br>
<br>
Whether, and how, we should map these is tricky. I'm not sure anyone <br>
else has. I had hoped to find a bird records county map to demonstrate, <br>
but failed to do so<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
On 08/01/2021 10:34, Andy Townsend wrote:<br>
> On 08/01/2021 09:00, Mark Goodge wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Secondly, there's no such thing as "the" traditional county <br>
>> boundaries anyway. They were fluid, and subject to change. The <br>
>> Victorians, in particular, were inveterate tinkerers with local <br>
>> government and were forever tweaking the boundaries, a little here <br>
>> and a little there. So any traditional county boundary data can only <br>
>> ever be a snapshot of what the boundaries were at any particular <br>
>> point in time. And there's no consensus about which is the most <br>
>> "correct" snapshot to use. Even the Historic Counties Trust, which <br>
>> aims to promote awareness of the traditional counties, offers <br>
>> boundary data in different definitions. We can't possibly include all <br>
>> of them in OSM, but picking just one of them means making an <br>
>> editorial view as to the most appropriate snapshot. In the absence of <br>
>> an agreed traditional county standard for OSM, leaving it up to <br>
>> individual mappers will inevitably result in inconsistencies.<br>
>><br>
> I think (and I'm guessing a bit here) that the "traditional" ones <br>
> partly in OSM are the immediately-pre-1974 ones. Modelling the <br>
> pre-1974 changes sounds like something best done in OpenHistoricalMap, <br>
> and to be honest sounds like a nice lockdown project for someone <br>
> interested in such things.<br>
><br>
> I can also see where you're coming from about whether the traditional <br>
> ones should be in OSM at all. In some cases the boundary is <br>
> signposted (the "traditional East Riding" at Stamford Bridge in <br>
> Yorkshire certainly is), and in many cases boundaries will follow <br>
> natural features that haven't moved, but in some cases (e.g. Crayke, <br>
> formerly a Durham Exclave until some early Victorian tinkering, now in <br>
> Yorkshire, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bettss-Crayke-map.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bettss-Crayke-map.png</a> ) <br>
> I don't think they do.<br>
><br>
> Best Regards,<br>
><br>
> Andy<br>
><br>
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