Hi, Let's start a thread to create an official organization of the administrative divisions in regards with the numbering in OSM [1].
Skipping levels higher than 4 (reserved for things greater than Québec). Here's my first shot based on all the info I could find on the Ministère des affaires minicipales, des régions de l'Occupation du territoire (gosh they like the long names!) [3]: Level 4: Provinces and territories Level 5: Région administratives / Administrative regions (Level 5.5: Here would fit L'Agence métropolitaine de transport, not worth mapping) Level 6: Communautés métropolitaines / Urbans or metropolitan communities Level 7: Municipalités régionales de compté (MRCs) (Level 7.5: Here would fit the Conférences régionales des élus of Montérégie (which is divided in 3), other CRÉ match their MRC boundaries, but I believe this information is not worth of mapping. Maps [4]). Level 8: Municipalités et villes / Municipalities, Cities Level 9: Arrondissements / Boroughs Level 10: Quartier / Quarter This list does not contain federal electoral districts, provincial electoral districts, municipal electoral districts, school boards, "Régions municipales de recensement" and "Agglomérations de recensement" [5] (what are theses?). Should we include all of them? Now if you look closely at the wiki table, my suggestion doesn't fit with the rest of Canada: Québec's MRCs would be one level down compared to Ontario. That's because we have 2 levels between the province and the cities. A real life example would be for the place I used to live in Québec City: Level 4: Québec Level 5: Capitale-Nationale (ref=03) Level 6: Communauté urbaine de Québec Level 7 is N/A (Québec is not part of an MRC, being a big city) Level 8: Québec Level 9: La cité (Map of the borough [2]) Level 10: Montcalm I believe it would make sens for all those names show up on a map as they are commonly used. Are there other opinions? Pierre-Luc NB: I believe there was a report from the OCDE stating that Montréal was being over administrated. I agree :) [1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary=administrative [2]: http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/apropos/portrait/arrondissements/lacite/plan.aspx [3] http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca [4] http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/publications/cartotheque/CRE.pdf [5] http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/publications/cartotheque/atlas_AR_RMR.pdf
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