Re: [talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread Andrew Harvey
I agree, indeed some are already mapped this way https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7032873 On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 15:20, cleary wrote: > > This was discussed about a decade ago in regard to unincorporated areas in > NSW and SA. The prevailing view was that unincorporated areas are local >

Re: [talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread cleary
This was discussed about a decade ago in regard to unincorporated areas in NSW and SA. The prevailing view was that unincorporated areas are local government areas. They usually have a different administrative structure (as distinct from the councils that administer local government in more p

Re: [talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread stevea
I'm sure it is done, as I've seen it at a smaller scale in the USA, I'll say tagging in OSM in USA isn't done for what in USA we call "special districts." And these most specifically do NOT get tagged with any admin_level value (6 or otherwise) because they really aren't a government, what admi

Re: [talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread Brendan Barnes
Thanks stevea for the considered reply. Much appreciated. In Australia (and specifically Victoria from my experience), unincorporated areas are not "surrounded by" a local government area implying the local government overlays them, though they do sometimes abut one or more neighbouring local gove

Re: [talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread stevea
I absolutely realize that my experience is with the USA and not Australia, but (in a VERY broad-brush way) the logical mappings between how federal=2, state=4 and admin_level=6 is almost always the "sub-state / local-ish" government authorities (in the USA it is almost always what we call a "cou

[talk-au] Administration level for unincorporated areas

2024-06-16 Thread Brendan Barnes
Hi all, just seeing if there's consensus on what administration level unincorporated areas should have in Australia? In Victoria (and potentially other states), the unincorporated areas are administered by state-level statutory authorities and departments, so I'm thinking admin_level=6 to match eq