On 17.12.2014 23:23, Colin Smale wrote: > In the UK "designation=" is in wide usage for this. I don't know if it is > typically a UK thing (it wouldn't surprise me) but local governments > sometimes have the right to change their "style" - for example a "civil > parish" can choose autonomously to call itself a "community council". It can > also choose to call itself a "town council" although I suspect this needs > cooperation from its parent authority. And a council can become a "city > council" basically only through a central decision.
I think that the name of the council does not matter. > Some "districts" > (admin_level=8) have the status of "borough." All this doesn't change the > legal powers and responsibilities of the council, it's all about what they > are "called". There's a lot of snobism involved as well... > > I have tried to summarise a tagging scheme for UK local authorities here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries So far we have destination=* for the UK, official_status=* for Russia, and name:prefix for other countries. That diversity makes the tags essentially unusable for applications. It's a pity that every national OSM community make up their own tags, without caring what others do, as if there were berlin walls around each country. Personally I don't care if the key is admin_title=*, designation=*, or official_status=*. We just should decide for one. -- Friedrich K. Volkmann http://www.volki.at/ Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
