Rob raised this in the past. If I recall, past discussions on this subject (NI) and under which group it should fall, was treated similar to the way the passport situation has been managed i.e. Those wanting to fall under the UK, registered with the UK group, those wanting to fall under the All Ireland group, register with that group.
If there were conflicts, they would be managed by the group they were raised to. If there was some other major change / issue, both groups would work together to achieve a successful conclusion. With all that said, I do not see any special caveats called out for NI that would reflect any of the above, so yes, I would like to raise an objection/concern. Simply put, there are folks who will not recognise/resent a single group covering NI. This needs to be factored into the chapter documents. I believe that a discussion to hash out the finer details is warranted and an agreed set of terms laid out between both entities. Once we get moving on our chapter status, this would be included in ours also. Dave On 19 Apr 2017 12:19, <[email protected]> wrote: On 18 April 2017 20:40:06 IST, Colm Moore <[email protected]> wrote: >Paul, > >About 12% of my edits are in the UK, mostly Northern Ireland, with a >strong leaning to power and some other networks. > > >I have no particular opinion on this, other than there are certain >practicalities that make treating the island of Ireland as a single >geographical / mapping entity useful, e.g. the shared border, the >history of places / land administration (county, barony, townland, >etc.). This isn't just about boundaries, but also physical >infrastructure (e.g. the A3 has 5 border crossings), Ireland / Northern >Ireland don't use standard gauge railways (one exception) and >businesses (e.g. some banks operate on both sides of the border and >there is a single electricity market, where companies operate on both >sides of the border). That said, there are other businesses that >operate only in Britain and Northern Ireland (some banks) or Britain >and the Republic (Aldi). > > >That said, just because a chapter covers a particular region, doesn't >mean it can't have friendly relations with its neighbours. :) And it >doesn't stop people mapping across borders. > > >Note that the crown dependencies are not part of the UK, although there >are obvious parallels. I too live in ROI but include NI in my mapping activities (and Brexit won't change that :p). OSMIE (http://www.openstreetmap.ie/about-osmie/) has AFAIK stalled its progress towards becoming an OSMF local chapter, but I'm sure this'll eventually get done, and we'll want to include the whole island under the same umbrella. I trust that it isn't a problem for the OSMF if NI is covered by two distinct OSMF local chapters ? -- Vdp Sent from a phone. _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
