OK, I did a little more reading but it turns out that the actual order (
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/37/note/made ) simply says 'the
new ward boundaries are those shown on the map in the Commission's office
... and here's a link to an electronic version of the same map' which
Just to be clear though Colin, in that particular instance when I said the
position of the railway line looked rather dodgy, that was when comparing a
high degree of congruence between Cadastral Parcels and the satellite
imagery (roads and buildings) and the adjacent railway lines cutting
through
If the position of the boundary is imported from a source that ultimately has a
very high precision, for example Ordnance Survey or a Council's GIS system
through a shapefile or similar, then the location as recorded in OSM will
likely be more accurate than what would be obtained from tracing
well, I did the first one! (Brixton Acre Lane)
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/13817756#map=15/51.4573/-0.1225
(Did I do it right...?)
It didn't actually take very long.
For the most part, I was able to simply tag roads with the relation.
For a few more outré bits where the ward boundary
Yeah Tom,
this is conclusion I reached too:
if a ward boundary is legally defined as being a particular geographical
feature (e.g. centre line of a road) then it is better to have that way on
OSM tagged with a relation (even if its position is a metre or two off
perfect) rather than have another
My controversial opinion is that these shouldn't be in OSM.
The definitive boundaries are freely available as open data in OS
Boundary Line (although they won't usually appear there until after
the boundaries take effect). The current UK-wide coverage of ward
boundaries in OSM is pretty minimal,
Hello,
a complete revamp of the electoral wards in Lambeth borough comes into
effect in May 2022, with 25 new wards.
(See
https://love.lambeth.gov.uk/a-new-political-map-for-the-2022-lambeth-borough-council-elections/
for info).
I'm guessing the boundaries are available as open data,
and some
