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

[Edward Bainton]

PS 'grit bin' is arbitrary: I knew Sutton had only one or two, so it made
playing around with the database easier.

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:32, Edward Bainton <bainton.ete at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is Sutton the parish within the City of Peterborough unitary
> authority (there is another in Beds and another in Norfolk).
>
> OP here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=67698
>
> The challenge was to get Overpass to return grit bins in *this *Sutton,
> and not in all places called Sutton.
>
> The context (not in OP) was a query from someone who works with parish
> councils asking whether OSM is a feasible GIS for their asset management -
> because (1) parish councils are third parties to the Public Sector Mapping
> Agreement and (2) they have just had a lot of  assets (or should that be
> liabilities?) devolved to them from higher tiers of government.
>
> Edward
>
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 16:25, Dave F via Talk-GB <
> talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
>> Which Sutton?
>>
>> Could you post the OP?
>>
>> DaveF
>>
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>> On 23/10/2019 15:49, Edward Bainton 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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