[OSM-talk-ie] Townlands and N.I

[Stephen Roulston]

My understanding is that, for communications from the government in Northern Ireland, the use of townlands in addresses is mandatory. 

Stephen_Co_Antrim

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> On 26 Feb 2019, at 05:13, Patrick Matthews <mullinalaghta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My understanding is that townlands are officially defined in Northern
> Ireland (they form part of the OSNI OpenData administrative boundaries
> release) but while they are still used as building blocks for higher-level
> administrative areas such as wards, they are not normally used in
> addresses. I would suggest adding "and Northern Ireland"  to the entry on
> townlands.
> 
> Paddy Matthews.
> 
>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:27 AM Tadeusz Cantwell <t4dc4n at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> According to the wiki
>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:locality%3Dtownland> townlands
>> are
>> only valid in Ireland the country as an official admin boundary, but the
>> N.I
>> page <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Northern_Ireland>
>> mentions the admin boundaries are similar to townlands. So should the wiki
>> not be updated to something like "and used for historical mapping of admin
>> borders in N.I", or would that kind of change need to be officially
>> approved.
>> 
>> Tadeusz
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