[Talk-GB] Fw: Re: ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries

[Philip Barnes]

On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 17:25 +0100, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> 
> ... and to confuse things further, only a minority of areas have
> unitary authorities (typically but not exclusively mid-sized cities),
> the rest of the country still has the county/district system. An
> illogical mess I know!
> 
One of which is my area, Shropshire, which is one of Englands most rural
counties, the district councils were abolished in 2009.

Shropshire, unlike most unitary authority areas, retains its parish and
town councils.

Phil (trigpoint) 

> 
> -----Forwarded by Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent on 10/10/2013 05:24PM -----
> To: cquest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr>
> From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent
> Date: 10/10/2013 05:23PM
> Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries
> 
> 
> They used to be simple, now they're somewhat more complex thanks to
> unitary authorities.
> 
> Prior to sometime in the nineties, we used to have the countries
> (England, Scotland, Wales) separated into counties (e.g. Hampshire,
> West Sussex etc) or metropolitan counties (Greater London, Greater
> Manchester etc) and then each county comprised a series of districts
> or boroughs.
> 
> Now we have unitary authorities, these perform the functions of both
> counties and districts - a unitary authority is typically a former
> district or borough which has taken on all the county functions, so
> that the county council is no longer responsible for anything in that
> area.
> 
> It's a little hard to map onto the French system but at a guess, a
> county is intermediate in importance between a French region and
> department.
> 
> Nick
> 
> -----cquest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr> wrote: -----
> To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> From: cquest <cquest at openstreetmap.fr>
> Date: 10/10/2013 04:12PM
> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries
> 
> You can also add FIPS and NUTS code at the same time... but they may
> not
> match the same area.
> 
> I must admit that up to now I've not been able to understand GB
> administrative subdivisions ;)
> 
> 
> 
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