[Talk-GB] Traditional/Historic Counties

[Philip Barnes]

Normally places are mapped with both a boundary and node.

A node is certainly needed for navigation and should be somewhere sensible, normally the centre is where someone who puts the placename into a satnav would expect to end up, rather than a housing estate in the geographical centre.

Phil (trigpoint)
 

On Thu Feb 9 22:30:03 2017 GMT, Adam Snape wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apologies for asking two questions in quick succession.
> 
> It has occurred to me that the traditional/historic UK counties aren't
> mapped in OSM and I wondered if it would be acceptable to add relations
> for these with the boundary=historic tag.
> 
> I know that we have Historical OSM  for long vanished historical features,
> and I would have no desire to see osm filled with antiquities,. but I think
> that the traditional counties are still relevant to people. People still
> identify with and talk of themselves as being from "Yorkshire". People
> might well wish to search a map for "Sussex" etc.
> 
> We have good sources for the pre-1974 county boundaries in the form of out
> of copyright OS maps. The boundaries almost entirely follow current
> administrative boundaries, so wouldn't result in lots of extra clutter on
> the map.
> 
> Obviously it would be a big task and not one I'm volunteering to do in its
> entirety (if I get round to it at all),  but does anybody find the
> principle of adding of traditional counties objectionable?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Adam
>

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