[Talk-ca] First nations boundary tagging

[Michael Stark]

Is tagging an admin centre appropriate for an unincorporated area? It's
like tagging an admin centre for an unincorporated area of, for example,
Snohomish County in the US. The electoral area is an unincorporated subunit
of a regional district. And a regional district can be compared to a county
in the US.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 6:09 PM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2023, at 4:00 PM, Michael Stark <michael60634 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Those look like electoral areas within regional districts. Essentially
> the electoral areas, in this context, are unincorporated areas in the
> regional districts.
>
> If so, they should be tagged boundary=political [1] with admin_centre and
> label nodes.
>
> Thanks for everybody's diligence about such topics.  It is quite helpful
> when admin_level values (and boundary edges) emerge to a high level of
> accuracy — or at least as "highly accurate as we can manage to assign to
> them."  Sometimes this means a fair bit of understanding about "what local
> people say," but it usually includes a wider inclusion into what people (in
> Canada, in British Columbia, Alberta...) and Contributors (to OSM) consider
> "good practice" for assigning admin_level values.
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical
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