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

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I am pretty sure there was a bill passed to make it a legal requirement
to 
have the townland in the address, by all official departments, some time
in 
2015 or 2016 maybe? 

I know there was a lot of noise at the time by Phil Flanagan from
Fermanagh as 
he wanted to have building numbers within townlands, instead of street
name 
and numbers plus townlands we have now. 

All the townlands have been mapped in NI and are tagged like this -
https://
www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4777253 

On 26.02.2019 20:09, Tadeusz Cantwell wrote:

> I think it does, Stephen, since at the very least townland names are used
> in the official database of house names and are used by many councils at a
> local level on signs and as part of their naming convention for roads etc,
> despite no Townland Names Bill having passed the assembly. A very simple
> question occurs to me, have townlands been already been mapped in N.I and
> what tags were used for them? If not what tag should be used?
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 19:32, Stephen Roulston via Talk-ie <
> talk-ie at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> 
> See the motions and recommendations in 2001 and 2002 as set out in the
> 2009 research paper - does that help?
> 
> http://archive.niassembly.gov.uk/researchandlibrary/2009/11109.pdf
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On 26 Feb 2019, at 19:25, Tadeusz Cantwell <t4dc4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I reread the page, which says the tag refers to officially used boundaries, which would not apply to N.I, since it is not the policy of OSM to have
> historic boundaries. However, if, as Stephen says they are still used for
> the official addresses of houses then they do have a use and I presume,
> effectively haven't changed since 1921 when the ward system was brought in. Does anyone know of any source or document which would clarify the matter? Is there some kind of N.I government body to ask.
> 
> Tadeusz
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