Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote: >OK >I'm buried deep into this and getting totally lost ... > >I'm using http://layers.openstreetmap.fr/ to check what needs doing > >We have 'admin?' levels > >5=Regions ... so West Midlands >6=Counties ... But Manchester and some Welsh ones are missing? >7=Not used ... But I wonder if 'Unitary Authorities' might be better >here? >8='Districts' ... But I'm not sure WHAT is currently set here? >Should this be 'local_authority'? > >9=Not Used >10=Parish ... Has some way to go, but why is CP appended to some areas >and not >others? The files I've checked have CP as part of the title so should >we not >standardise on that? > >The French have added a separate 'local_authority' >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dlocal_authority >But we have been having a discussion on the main talk list about them >doing >their own thing ;) >We could legitimise that by using it? > >I then have >http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dpolitical >With political_division of: >parl_const >county_division >ward > >But we only seem to have a very small number of wards loaded? > >My immediate 'need' is to add a couple of constituencies and their >wards , but >I'm having trouble unravelling the 9 different data sets in the >Boundary Line set. >I think I need 'district_borough_unitary_ward_region' for the wards, >but is it >then 'westminster_const_region' for the constituency boundaries? > >Next step is what has already been converted and who is already adding >stuff ... >I've located 'county', district' and 'parish' but I assume that I need >to >process the ward data myself :)
CP is appended on some parishes because that is the name from the OS OpenData Boundary Line. The name IMHO is better without the CP. -- Cheers, Chris OSM User chillly _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
