On 24/10/24 21:51, cleary wrote:
There have been some changes to unincorporated areas in NSW in recent years.
The two original unincorporated areas, Unincorporated Far West Area and Lord
Howe Island remain. I understand Government was unhappy with management of
Sydney Harbour. Sydney Harbour and part of Botany Bay have been taken from
council control and are administered directly by NSW Government or by a
government authority of which I am not aware. There may be other areas as well
but I have no other information.
When OpenStreetMap was initially given permission to use limited NSW Government
spatial data, it included Local Government Area administrative boundaries and,
as far as I can ascertain, that permission remains. The website was formerly
lpi.nsw.gov.au and became spatial.nsw.gov.au but I think we still have
permission for the specified datasets as noted in the OSM contributors
pagehttps://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#New_South_Wales_Government_data
I have just been looking for the URL for the LGA dataset and didn't see it.
However I did find the NSW Spatial Services link to Arcgis map of LGAs:
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fportal.spatial.nsw.gov.au%2Fserver%2Frest%2Fservices%2FNSW_Administrative_Boundaries_Theme%2FFeatureServer%2F8&source=sd
The DCS Base Map, accessible through at least some OSM editors, shows at least
some of the LGAs boundaries.
It does not show the 'unincorporated areas' at all, at least not with my eyes.
I don't think we can use this map as a source for copying data but it is worth looking to see what
data we might be seeking to access. It includes "Unincorporated - Sydney Harbour Area"
and "Unincorporated - Botany Bay Area". The Sydney Harbour Area includes much of
Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers as well as various bays such as Homebush Bay and Canada Bay. OSM
currently shows the limits of LGAs administered by councils but does not show the Unincorporated
Sydney Harbour area.
That link is at least useful even though OSM cannot use it.
The present OSM data shows, for example, the Australian Nation Maritime Museum
as an unincorporated area where the above link shows it as administered by the
City of Sydney LGA.
The recent mapping showing islands in the harbour as Unincorporated Sydney
Harbour appears to be incorrect as the harbour itself is part of the area as
well as the islands within the harbour.
The NSW Government is the authority in regard to LGAs, both council
administered and unincorporated, in the state while Spatial Services is the
vehicle through which data is published. I would regard that data as the most
authoritative that we could obtain for OSM.
Perhaps someone might be able to add information to the above and/or identify a
link to the LGA dataset on the Spatial Services website.
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024, at 12:02 PM, Warin wrote:
Hi
A mapper has added Relation: Unincorporated New South Wales
(18183905).I believe this should be 2 areas - but now has 205 areas!
Link for documented 2 areas only
https://pastvtr.elections.nsw.gov.au/LGE2017/lge-unincorporated.htm
The additions are claimed to be from the 'Local Government National
Report', a federal thing that financially directly contributes to local
councils .. it has no jurisdiction over councils as that is a
state/territory thing. It is creative commons v4, not listed on the
data base for use...
....
It would be easy enough to cope with the relation, but in adding it
changes have been made to already mapped ways and relations, breaking
some of them. This makes corrections difficult as the source of these
individual changes is unknown.
I have left comments on 2 of the changesets ..
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/158125086
https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/158192928
Any thoughts?
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