I've had a play around because I noticed that someone has added lots of
redundant administrative boundaries in Dublin complete with slightly
dubious names eg. http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6114262 . Trying
searches it seems that Nominatim is sensible enough to not include the
Hi Paul,
Thanks, that's a good point. I wasn't planning on adding subdivisions such
as the Ridings (it opens the floodgates for the Sussex Rapes and the
Hundreds of other counties and I'm not sure how relevant they are to people
in the modern day). So, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire
> Any thoughts?
If there is a way of tagging these so they're ignored by Nominatim etc so
address/location searches only show up modern counties, unless specifically
searched for, and no occlusion occurs, then yes. Otherwise, you might get
the following results:
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
West
Hi Colin,
Thanks for the reply and offer of assistance, and also thanks for your
administrative boundary gpx files which have been very useful for mapping
local parishes.
I was aware of the mapping of ceremonial counties but they're actually
based upon the post-1974 administrative counties with
Normally places are mapped with both a boundary and node.
A node is certainly needed for navigation and should be somewhere sensible,
normally the centre is where someone who puts the placename into a satnav would
expect to end up, rather than a housing estate in the geographical centre.
Phil
Hi Adam,
OSM does contain "Ceremonial Counties", i.e. Lieutenancy areas (in
England). They are mapped as boundary=ceremonial. Basically they
represent the counties as they existed just before the 1974 LGA. The
boundaries still change occasionally to keep pace with (minor) changes
to
Hello,
Apologies for asking two questions in quick succession.
It has occurred to me that the traditional/historic UK counties aren't
mapped in OSM and I wondered if it would be acceptable to add relations
for these with the boundary=historic tag.
I know that we have Historical OSM for long
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