[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[cleary]

In suggesting the term "Local Government Area", I was thinking of areas
as shown in the Local Government Areas (LGA) datasets issued by state
and territory governments (although, at the moment, I understand we have
permissions only to use datasets from LPI NSW and SA Government Data).
These datasets include areas covered by various pieces of legislation
including but not limited to "local government" acts.  Perhaps I might
have suggested different wording such as  "local administrative
districts including but not limited to shires, cities and
municipalities".






On Sat, Dec 24, 2016, at 05:38 PM, Warin wrote:

> On 24-Dec-16 04:40 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:

>> On 23/12/16 09:50, cleary wrote: 

>> 

>>> 

>>> 

>>> 

>>> 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. 

>>> 

>> 

>> 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.
>> 

> 

> Err does this mean there are areas in NSW that have no 'local
> government area'?
>  Or did you mean '*"local government area" is used in a number of
>  pieces of legislation because different rules apply if you are in a
>  local government area or another 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.
> 

> Personally I would want to get away from the hair splitting and get
> back to mapping.
> 

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