[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[Andrew Davidson]

On 23/12/16 09:50, cleary wrote:
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> I suggest a simple one-word change in the wiki so that Level 6
> administrative boundaries in Australia would read "Local Government Area
> Border (e.g Shire/Council)" replacing "Local Government Authority Border
> (e.g Shire/Council)" clarifying that we map the area rather than the
> form of administration in the area.
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I completely agree with this proposed change. It will clarify exactly 
what is supposed to be represented by an admin_level 6 boundary.

In NSW the term "local government area" is used in a number of pieces of 
legislation because different rules apply if you are in a local 
government area than if you are not. As a result there is a clear and 
unambiguous definition of what is and what is not a local government area.

SA doesn't use the term in their legislation but there is a LGA areas 
dataset available from data.sa.gov.au that defines for each part of SA 
whether or not it is a local government area.

Hopefully this will stop the rather tedious debate about what exactly 
constitutes a local government authority.