[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[Andrew Davidson]

On 13/1/17 11:51, Andrew Harvey wrote:

> I agree with this. The difference between unincorporated or not could be
> added by a new tag to indicate

Or we could not break the model and use a different admin_level.

>, could be determined from the name,

Thus requiring the data consumer to parse the name to determine if 
something is or isn't a local government area.

 > or from
> the operator tag which links to the legal entity.

I had a look at this. Of the 409,000 admin boundary relations in OSM 
there are 52 with an operator tag. After discounting the ones where 
people should have used the short_name tag and the ones where someone 
had put school districts in at admin_level 11, you are left with about 
10. As far as I could tell by trying to search for these entities they 
are all examples of someone putting in things at the wrong admin_level 
or things that they wanted to appear on the map and then trying to fix 
that by putting an operator tag on.

> The wiki just says LGA border (eg. Shire/Council) for level 6. If you're
> worried we could just add eg. Shire/Council/Unincorporated).

It actually says:

"Local Government Authority Border (e.g Shire/Council)"

Unincorporated is not a "Local Government Authority"

Plus I think Local Government Areas are useful things to have in OSM, 
what admin_level do you suggest we set aside for them?