[Talk-in] parliamentry, assembly seat boundaries

[Arun Ganesh]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:24 AM, ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav)
<mevikas at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (also posted this in osm india forum)
>
> I have checked the info for India in
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and
> could not find the boundary (admin_level) for parliamentary, assembly
> limits. I have only started image tracing over the NCR maps given by
> election commission and state election commissions. I could not find a
> better data source.
> Im using a number admin_level=6 for assembly boundaries and will use
> admin=5 for parliamentary boundaries.
>

Since electoral boundaries don't necessarily overlap with administrative
boundaries, this scheme could get quite messy. I would think we should
reserve the admin_level tags purely for administrative divisions like those
mentioned here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_division

i.e States, Districts, Subdistricts, Municipal Corporations,
Municipalities, Panchayats

There seems to be some work on boundary=political which is probably more
relevant for constituencies:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical

But even I'm not completely sure how these boundaries compare in India, we
have so many types of overlapping jurisdictions and need a better
understanding of what they are to come up with a tagging scheme. Is there
any comprehensive resources to understand all these boundaries, I'll
document them on the wiki if there are any leads.

Please suggest.
>
> Thanks,
> Vikas
>
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