[Talk-GB] "British Islands" (was "OSMUK-in-a-box")

[Andy Townsend]

On 06/02/2020 18:35, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> >do we cover British Overseas Territories such as Gibraltar and the 
> Falkland Islands?
>
> Not as OSM UK CIC. We ended up settling on the British Islands: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Islands
>
>
The data underneath https://openstreetmap.community/ could do with an 
update as it explicitly avoids the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands 
as it uses "gb" as the definition in 
https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/blob/master/resources/europe/united_kingdom/uk-localchapter.json 
.

The solution would be similar to what I've just done for Ireland:

https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/pull/332

- define a geojson for the "British Islands" and change those resources 
that should use it from "gb".

The differences would be that we'd probably need 2 geojsons, since I've 
always assumed that the talk-gb list didn't include NI but OSM UK did, 
and that a geojson that had to include the border between Northern 
Ireland and the Republic would necessarily be more complex than the 
straightforward one I created for the island of Ireland.

Best Regards,

Andy