My understanding is that, for communications from the government in Northern Ireland, the use of townlands in addresses is mandatory.
Stephen_Co_Antrim Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Feb 2019, at 05:13, Patrick Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > > My understanding is that townlands are officially defined in Northern > Ireland (they form part of the OSNI OpenData administrative boundaries > release) but while they are still used as building blocks for higher-level > administrative areas such as wards, they are not normally used in > addresses. I would suggest adding "and Northern Ireland" to the entry on > townlands. > > Paddy Matthews. > >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:27 AM Tadeusz Cantwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> According to the wiki >> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:locality%3Dtownland> townlands >> are >> only valid in Ireland the country as an official admin boundary, but the >> N.I >> page <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Northern_Ireland> >> mentions the admin boundaries are similar to townlands. So should the wiki >> not be updated to something like "and used for historical mapping of admin >> borders in N.I", or would that kind of change need to be officially >> approved. >> >> Tadeusz >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
