On 28-Dec-16 06:57 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
On 28/12/16 17:51, cleary wrote:
In suggesting the term "Local Government Area", I was thinking of areas
as shown in the Local Government Areas (LGA) datasets issued by state
and territory governments
The LGA dataset have metadata in them that indicate whether or not an
area has a form of local administration. This is because the users of
these datasets may want to know this. In OSM there is no tagging that
you can use to indicate that the boundary that you've put in doesn't
have what the admin_level tag indicates. That means that these areas
are represented in OSM by not putting a boundary around them. This is
the usual way that you indicate that something doesn't exist in OSM.
This is how the admin_level model works. A admin_level 2 boundary
should enclose a country. You wouldn't expect to find a admin_level 2
boundary around the "Tasman Sea International Waters". Admin_level 4
goes around a state or territory. Admin_level 6 goes around the
boundaries of a local governing authority. Areas not inside a
admin_level 6 boundary don't have a form of local administration. In
the Australian case this means that they are administered from the
state, territory, or in some cases Commonwealth level.
They still have an 'administration'. And that should be documented in OSM.
The present OSMwiki definition can be changed. And it can be changed to
include more than places with 'local administration'!
Other than Andrew .. are there any others who have any concerns over
accepting nonlocal administration of 'local government'?
Possible wording ?
The boundary of an authority that is responsible for local government
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government> functions within that
boundary.
Gets away from having the 'authority' being 'local', 'elected' etc ...
just that they perform the functions of what a 'local government
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government>' does.
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Andrew ...if you require more detail ... then adding additional tags is
possible e.g
local=yes
elected=yes
and what ever other tags you think are required.
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