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

[Colin Smale]

The London Borough of Sutton has admin_level=8. Admin_level=10 is for civil (not ecclesiastical) parishes, or community councils in Wales and Scotland. The GSS code refers to the geometry of the area; if the boundary is modified (by law) a new code is assigned. 

On 23 October 2019 16:49:07 CEST, 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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