On 29/12/16 09:08, cleary wrote:
I have a different view about whether the unincorporated areas actually exist. They have defined boundaries and names, both assigned by the respective State governments, and included in the LGA datasets. I have seen the boundaries signposted when travelling in rural areas of both NSW and SA and the signs are the same as signs identifying shire/city boundaries.
That's not the issue. I'm not saying that there isn't parts of NSW known as unincorporated area. All I'm saying is that this is the part of NSW that doesn't have a local government authority and as such should not be tagged as admin_level 6. There is no local administration in this area it's all done from the state government level.
If you really want to put the unincorporated areas on the map I would have thought that the obvious answer was to give them a different admin_level to indicate that they are not of the same type. We currently have two redundant admin_levels that could be re-assigned to do this. Admin_level 9 was supposed to be used for non-ABS suburb boundaries but there are only about a dozen of these. Admin-level 8 is set aside for post code boundaries and there are 3 of these currently in OSM. Given that the post code boundaries are a commercial product I think we can safely assume that these will never become available, but in other countries this level is used for town boundaries and we may want to do this as well at some point in the future.
So I would suggest: Admin_level 10 => Bounded locality (ABS or otherwise determined) Admin_level 9 => Unincorporated areas Admin_level 8 => Reserved for future use as post code or town boundaries Admin_level 6 => Local Government Area. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
