[Talk-GB] Village, Hamlet and populations ...

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Mon Sep 14 14:47:27 UTC 2015


 

Hi Lester, can you provide a link to the ONS data you are referring to? 

On 2015-09-14 16:39, Lester Caine wrote: 

> On 14/09/15 15:18, Richard Symonds wrote: 
> 
>> Perhaps it would be better to, instead of having a hierarchy based on
>> definitions, instead having a hierarchy based on pure population size.
>> If this gives odd results, then perhaps you could have a "booster value"
>> if the town is used as a post town or a seat of local government (for
>> example).
> 
> Not going to happen.
> 
> Wish list!
> 
> On OSM some places have all their is_in: tags for parish, ward, county.
> Some rely on having enclosing boundaries to provide that information,
> and some have nothing where many of the boundaries are still missing.
> 
> For the UK we have the whole hierarchy from the ONS data so there is no
> need to create it, we simply need an agreed method to use it. We could
> create all the is_in: tags from the data so we can search and find all
> of x in y, or we could pass that off to a third party such as wikidata
> where we just add a link to the whole gamut of what can be added virtual
> data wise.
> 
> Currently all the wikipedia links are being added but I think that to
> use wikidata efficiently one has to use the designated ID rather than
> the name? Since Facebook insist on using the names as defined by
> wikipedia this is where my problem originally arose since they only add
> county when wikipedia do so often you have no idea which is the right
> place to use. What is used as a link has other consequences!
> 
> It does still not get around needing the boundaries IN OSM so one can
> click anywhere in an area and identify which of multiple zones it is
> actually in. Adding this data to the places does not fill that hole :(
 
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