[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[Andrew Davidson]

On 28/12/16 17:51, cleary wrote:
>
> 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

The LGA dataset have metadata in them that indicate whether or not an 
area has a form of local administration. This is because the users of 
these datasets may want to know this. In OSM there is no tagging that 
you can use to indicate that the boundary that you've put in doesn't 
have what the admin_level tag indicates. That means that these areas are 
represented in OSM by not putting a boundary around them. This is the 
usual way that you indicate that something doesn't exist in OSM.

This is how the admin_level model works. A admin_level 2 boundary should 
enclose a country. You wouldn't expect to find a admin_level 2 boundary 
around the "Tasman Sea International Waters". Admin_level 4 goes around 
a state or territory. Admin_level 6 goes around the boundaries of a 
local governing authority. Areas not inside a admin_level 6 boundary 
don't have a form of local administration. In the Australian case this 
means that they are administered from the state, territory, or in some 
cases Commonwealth level.