[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[Andrew Davidson]

On 2016-12-21 14:53, Warin wrote:
> On 21-Dec-16 11:38 AM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>> On 2016-12-21 11:01, Warin wrote:
>>> So the governance is irrelevant to the issue ... the area is managed by
>>> 'something' ..that 'something'  should be treated the same way in OSM
>>> for the same function.
>>
>> The area is managed by the State of New South Wales and there is
>> already a admin_level 4 boundary marking that out.
>>
>
> Taken to the extreme councils are subject to the governance by the State
> of New South Wales.

Obviously. They are entirely a creation of a State government act.

> For example the amalgamation of councils, placing certain councils into
> governance by an unelected official all done by the State Government.

So what? The local government authority still exists even if the council 
is being run by an administrator. Admin_level 6 means that there is a 
local government authority in place, not that it is democratically elected.

>
> These 'unincorporated areas' have some part of the gobermint
> administering them ... as such the have an entity preforming at least
> some of the actions of a 'local council' (building approvals for example).
> The most logical place to have that data in under the 'local government'
> section.
>

We're not mapping with the administrative boundary the areas where there 
are garbage services, building approvals are required, or the streets 
have kerbs and gutters.  We're mapping where there is a local government 
authority in place, and, as it says on the box 'unincorporated area', 
there is no local government authority in these areas.