<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">graham</b> <<a href="mailto:graham@theseamans.net">graham@theseamans.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So how would you see the formal administrative names being used on osm?<br>Not at all, and we just have the informal ones (which may in general<br>happen to coincide with the administrative ones)? Or we have two<br>separate sets of tags? I see people have recently begun to add
<br>administrative boundaries to the map, so it's not a problem that can be<br>permanently evaded.</blockquote><div><br>Two separate sets of tags seems a good idea. For administrative boundaries, you can define an exact border.
<br>With locality names, its usually quite fuzzy (where does one suburb start and the next stop?) and will depend upon opinion (and whether you are an estate agent!)<br><br>I would suggest place=suburb,town,city should remain for informal places, and maybe some system devised for indicating approximate extent...
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> (Urban parishes, in Greater London and and the rest of the country, were<br>
> moribund well before 1965, with a 1:1 mapping of parish to borough<br>> anyway. As an example, the parish of Cranford was abolished in 1935,<br>> going to form part of the parish of "Heston and Isleworth", which was
<br>> contigous with the urban district of the same).<br><br>So do these historical names - which are still very used locally - map<br>to any modern formal system (electoral, health-care, educational...) or<br>are they purely kept alive by local custom?
<br></blockquote></div><br>The latter, mostly. Administrative area names are usually based on local customary names.<br><br>-- <br>Abi<br>