[OSM-fi] Finnish sub-regions missing in OSM?

[Hannu Kauppinen]

Hi,

The sub-region (seutukunta) is not much used in Finland, so I guess  
nobody has taken the time to model these into OSM.

Statistics Finland provides a key for creating the mapping from  
municipalities to sub-regions:
http://www.stat.fi/meta/luokitukset/seutukunta/001-2016/luokitusavain_teksti.txt

Wikipedia provides the mapping from sub-regions to regions:
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_seutukunnat

Now we just need someone with enough time to include this information to OSM.

Br,
Hannu

Lainaus Ed Freyfogle <freyfogle at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm doing a project which involves getting the regions, sub-regions and
> municipalities of Finland out of OSM.
>
> Regions and Municipalities are perfect, but many of the sub-regions don't
> seem to exist in OSM.
> Of the 70 (my source is Wikipedia, I have very little personal knowledge of
> Finnish geography)
> I find only 12!
>
> As an example, consider "Imatran seutukunta"
> https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imatran_seutukunta
>
> A search in nominatim turns up nothing with that name (I also searched for
> the Swedish and English version of the name)
> When I search for Parikkala, one of the municipalities within the
> sub-region, I get here
> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/details.php?place_id=144679689
>
> which shows that it is a child of South Karelia, which is a region, not a
> sub-region.
>
> Why do most of the sub-regions not exist in OSM? Is it just that no one has
> added them yet? Or are they not used in real life?
>
> Many thanks for any insights you can share.
>
> best regards
> Ed
>