Hi,

 

First of all Northern Irish EDs cannot be tagged like Southern ones. This is
because they are no longer Administrative Units as they were abolished in
the early 920s and replaced by Wards. 

 

From what I can see no wards in NI (these are still Admin Boundaries ) are
tagged at present. This is a separate issue but there is no point tagging
EDs without tagging wards as well. Wards will have to be injected into OSM
with admin_level=9 given their legal status. 

 

In the strict sense they were never known as Electoral Divisions as that
nomenclature dates from the 1990s in the RoI only. They were DED’s at
abolition time.  There are no name:ga names either, all the names must be
English only.  Furthermore EDs were known as Poor Law Electoral Divisions (
1850 – 1898) for longer than they were known as District Electoral Divisions
( 1899-c. 1923) although census data was produced on an ED as well as on a
Ward basis in NI until the 1950s. 

 

Nevertheless they are of considerable historical interest and I think I know
how to tag them.. Here is the suggested scheme so that Nominatim disgorges
all the variants. 

 

boundary=electoral_division

alt_name=Drumsnot DED

alt_name_1=Drumsnot PLED

name=Drumsnot

name:en=Drumsnot District Electoral Division

place=locality

type=boundary

 

Input most welcome from all. 

 

Rgds

 

C

 

 

 

 

 

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