... and to confuse things further, only a minority of areas have unitary authorities (typically but not exclusively mid-sized cities), the rest of the country still has the county/district system. An illogical mess I know!
-----Forwarded by Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent on 10/10/2013 05:24PM ----- To: cquest <[email protected]> From: Nick Whitelegg/FT/Solent Date: 10/10/2013 05:23PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries They used to be simple, now they're somewhat more complex thanks to unitary authorities. Prior to sometime in the nineties, we used to have the countries (England, Scotland, Wales) separated into counties (e.g. Hampshire, West Sussex etc) or metropolitan counties (Greater London, Greater Manchester etc) and then each county comprised a series of districts or boroughs. Now we have unitary authorities, these perform the functions of both counties and districts - a unitary authority is typically a former district or borough which has taken on all the county functions, so that the county council is no longer responsible for anything in that area. It's a little hard to map onto the French system but at a guess, a county is intermediate in importance between a French region and department. Nick -----cquest <[email protected]> wrote: ----- To: [email protected] From: cquest <[email protected]> Date: 10/10/2013 04:12PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries You can also add FIPS and NUTS code at the same time... but they may not match the same area. I must admit that up to now I've not been able to understand GB administrative subdivisions ;) ----- Christian Quest - [email protected] -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/ISO3166-on-GB-admin-boundaries-tp5780969p5780975.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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