Hi
The West Midlands is administered as a unit for fire police and public transport rather than individually by the 7 constituent LAs. I don't know where that places it, but use the information as you see fit Regards Brian On 20 February 2014 11:34, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In the last couple of years I have put in a lot of hours maintaining the > UK's admin boundaries in OSM. Having started in Kent (home territory) I > have gradually been fanning out to cover more and more of the country. > Although there is a lot of consistency in the tagging, one thing I noticed > is that there are two schools of thought regarding Metropolitan Districts. > These are a subdivision of Metropolitan Counties, of which there are six: > Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West > Midlands and West Yorkshire. > > The Metropolitan Counties still exist in law, and certain functions (e.g. > Fire&Rescue, public transport) are often governed at that level. The > Councils no longer exist as bodies however. The Metropolitan Districts > (which are styled as Boroughs or Cities) are therefore effectively 99% the > same as "unitary authorities". > > In the situation between 1974 and 1986 the tagging would be obvious: both > the County and the District would be boundary=administrative, with > admin_level=6 for the county and admin_level=8 for the districts. In OSM, > things have diverged a bit since then, and proper Unitary Authorities are > tagged as admin_level=6 putting them on the same level as Non-Metropolitan > Counties. > > The current situation in OSM is: > > admin_level > County county tag county district > GM ceremonial n/a 8 > Merseyside ceremonial n/a 8 > S Yorks administrative 6 8 > T&Wear ceremonial n/a 6 > W Mids administrative 6 8 > W Yorks ceremonial n/a 8 > > I would like to normalise this tagging, and looking at the current usage > above and the wiki[1], propose that the Metropolitan Counties become > boundary=ceremonial, and the Metropolitan Districts become > boundary=administrative, admin_level=8. > > Are there any objections or other comments? If not I will make the changes > in a few days' time. > > By the way, I have been creating a wiki page to try to give an overview of > UK boundary tagging at [2]. Please look at it - any comments, corrections, > additions etc are most welcome, and if people feel it's useful the content > can be moved into a more "obvious" place in the wiki. > > Thanks, > Colin > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Admin_level > [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > >
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