[Talk-GB] Boundaries ...

[Chris Hill]

Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

>OK
>I'm buried deep into this and getting totally lost ...
>
>I'm using http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/ to check what needs doing
>
>We have 'admin?' levels
>
>5=Regions ... so West Midlands
>6=Counties ... But Manchester and some Welsh ones are missing?
>7=Not used ... But I wonder if 'Unitary Authorities' might be better
>here?
>8='Districts' ... But I'm not sure WHAT is currently set here?
>Should this be 'local_authority'?
>
>9=Not Used
>10=Parish ... Has some way to go, but why is CP appended to some areas
>and not 
>others? The files I've checked have CP as part of the title so should
>we not 
>standardise on that?
>
>The French have added a separate 'local_authority'
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dlocal_authority
>But we have been having a discussion on the main talk list about them
>doing 
>their own thing ;)
>We could legitimise that by using it?
>
>I then have
>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical
>With political_division of:
>parl_const
>county_division
>ward
>
>But we only seem to have a very small number of wards loaded?
>
>My immediate 'need' is to add a couple of constituencies and their
>wards , but 
>I'm having trouble unravelling the 9 different data sets in the
>Boundary Line set.
>I think I need 'district_borough_unitary_ward_region' for the wards,
>but is it 
>then 'westminster_const_region' for the constituency boundaries?
>
>Next step is what has already been converted and who is already adding
>stuff ...
>I've located 'county', district' and 'parish' but I assume that I need
>to 
>process the ward data myself :)

CP is appended on some parishes because that is the name from the OS OpenData Boundary Line. The name IMHO is better without the CP.
-- 
Cheers, Chris
OSM User chillly