This is unfinished business for us really.
In 1921 the whole of Ireland was built like. Townlands > grouped into Electoral Divisions > grouped into Rural Districts or Urban Districts > > grouped into Counties. In 2016 the south of Ireland is built like. Townlands > grouped into Electoral Divisions > grouped into Municipal Districts > grouped into Counties. And that latter structure corresponds to admin levels 10 to 7 inclusive. In NI a key change occurred immediately after partition. Electoral Divisions were deliberately deprecated in favour of Wards. A Ward is _a different grouping system for whole townlands_ and the creation of these Wards was a political decision made in 1923. Wards are the admin_level=9 building block in NI. > grouped into District Electoral Areas are the admin_level=8 building block in NI. > grouped into District Councils like Fermanagh and Omagh District Council are the admin_level=7 building block. There are 11 of these councils across the 6 counties. The problem is that they often cross county lines unlike in the south where no admin level =7 crosses an admin_level=6 boundary. JOSM will fair hiss I tells yiz. The 32 counties with admin_level=6 tags no longer legally matter SAVE that most admin_level=6 entities in the south are coextant with an admin_level=7 entity with the same name, excepting Cork Dublin and Galway which have more admin_level=7 entities than admin_level=6 entities. Admin_level=5 entities (provinces) have not existed since the Normans cane, in effect. We maintain them as an administrative conceit like we do admin_level=6. :) In NI Electoral Divisions are boundary=historic (like baronies and cps and rds and plus are) and with no admin level tag, this has been the case since 1923, long before OSM ever came along. HTH _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
