[Talk-GB] Reference numbers for UK admin areas?

[SK53]

They are current ONS 9-character codes ('E' for England). These codes cover
a wide range of administrative geographies.

There is absolutely no need to add a reference to the local authority to
street furniture objects as OSM is a geographical database & this can be
determined from the data. Note that individual authorities may have two
sets of codes (probably non-overlapping) for a given set of objects
simultaneously. This is certainly true of street lights when
replacement/maintenance has been out-sourced to a third party.
Additionally, some councils only use a within street reference number for
street lights (and possibly other street furniture).

Jerry



On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 15:54, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> On the forum marczoutendijk gave me an Overpass query to find grit-bins in
> Sutton.
>
> He added an admin-level to distinguish the parish of Sutton from the
> London borough.
>
> The only issue is, there are at least three Suttons at admin_level=10 (as
> it happens, not far from each other).
>
> They have ref numbers thus: ref:gss=E04001120 (for example)
>
> Does anyone know what these are? There is a webpage in the wiki here, but
> I can't make sense of it.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Item:Q2647
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edward
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