[Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

[Matthew Darwin]

Hello all,

I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I 
would ask here.

In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA" 
for short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zone  
(see http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details).

I want to tag these in OSM, so then you can run a query to find all 
businesses within a BIA. Sometimes the boundaries of the BIA are very 
tight and just cover things that are actual businesses, and sometimes 
the boundaries of a BIA are very loose and cover lots of area 
including residential... and when a new business comes up later in 
that area it automatically is a part of the BIA.

I am thinking that the *relation type=boundary, 
boundary=local_authority *might be applicable here, and define either 
a Canada specific definition maybe just Ontario, depending if the 
concept exists elsewhere.

I would like to get people's opinion on this idea....  Or please 
suggest something else.


https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aboundary%3Dlocal_authority

  * type <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:type>=boundary
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:type%3Dboundary>
  * boundary
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary>=local_authority
  * name <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=*
  * local_authority:CA
    <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:local_authority:FR&action=edit&redlink=1>=BIA


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