[Talk-ca] Business Improvement Area tagging

[Bernie Connors]

Matthew,

      Here in NB we also have the very same concept of Business Improvement
Areas (BIA).  The BIA boundaries can be downloaded from the GeoNB Data
Catalogue.

Bernie.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019, 8:32 PM Matthew Darwin <matthew at mdarwin.ca wrote:

> 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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