To me this is a clear case of something that doesn't belong in OSM. It sounds like the boundaries aren't verifiable on the ground and may change frequently. Therefore any data in OSM would go stale quickly and the only verification of accuracy would be to go back to the source. Yes, we have deviations from the "verifiable on the ground" rule, but we've had similar discussions for census boundaries, ridings/election districts, and on the the talk-us list recently about Bureau of Land Management boundaries.
For your analysis of businesses within a BIA, you can just download the OSM and BIA boundary data separately and do the analysis in the GIS application of your choice. Harald. On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 6:32 PM Matthew Darwin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I > would ask here. > > In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA" for > short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zone (see > http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details). > > I want to tag these in OSM, so then you can run a query to find all > businesses within a BIA. Sometimes the boundaries of the BIA are very tight > and just cover things that are actual businesses, and sometimes the > boundaries of a BIA are very loose and cover lots of area including > residential... and when a new business comes up later in that area it > automatically is a part of the BIA. > > I am thinking that the *relation type=boundary, boundary=local_authority > *might > be applicable here, and define either a Canada specific definition maybe > just Ontario, depending if the concept exists elsewhere. > > I would like to get people's opinion on this idea.... Or please suggest > something else. > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aboundary%3Dlocal_authority > > - type <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:type>=boundary > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:type%3Dboundary> > - boundary <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary>= > local_authority > - name <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=* > - local_authority:CA > > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:local_authority:FR&action=edit&redlink=1> > =BIA > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > -- Please use encrypted communication whenever possible! Key-ID: 0x34cb93972f186565
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