Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-28 14:41, Dan Glover wrote: > Other observations, if I may? > > Levels 4 and 6 give UK-wide coverage and level has complete coverage of > England. The Combined Authorities are relatively sparse in their coverage (by > area - by population is a different matter) so there would be

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-07-28 11:45, Ed Loach wrote: > Colin wrote: > >> Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your >> assertion that the Regions >> at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many >> people talk about >> geographical regions like "the

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Ed Loach
Colin wrote: > Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your assertion > that the Regions > at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many people > talk about > geographical regions like "the South-East" or "the North-West". But these are >

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Colin Smale
Hi Sarah, Thanks for your message. I would like to challenge one point - your assertion that the Regions at admin_level=5 are in "widespread popular use". It is true that many people talk about geographical regions like "the South-East" or "the North-West". But these are ill-defined vernacular

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-28 Thread Sarah Hoffmann
Hi, I'm the one who caused this discussion by editing West Yorkshire. I was looking into admin boundaries for Nominatim (the search engine) who uses them to determine the place description or address of a place. As part of this I had noticed a hole in the admin level 6 coverage and 'fixed' it. I

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-27 Thread Steve Doerr
Could they perhaps be 5.5 to distinguish them from regions? Steve From: Brian Prangle [mailto:bpran...@gmail.com] I favour admin level 5 too. On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 23:52, Colin Smale mailto:colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: The LAs of which the CAs are composed are sometimes

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-27 Thread Brian Prangle
I favour admin level 5 too. West Midlands CA is tagged as 6 which was a pure estimate by me as being at least equivalent to the constituent LA members. Transport is a heck of a slice of its budget and function (capital £300m and operating £100m) It also plays a big role in economic development

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-27 Thread Colin Smale
For England (i.e. not Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland): * at admin level 6, there should be full coverage, either as an administrative county or a unitary authority * at admin level 8, partial coverage - full within administrative counties, none within unitary authorities

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 7/27/20 00:50, Colin Smale wrote: > If they are accepted as boundary=administrative, what admin level should > be used? The LAs of which the CAs are composed are sometimes > Metropolitan Boroughs with admin_level=8, and sometimes Unitary > Authorities with admin_level=6. I am tending

[Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries and Combined Authorities

2020-07-26 Thread Colin Smale
Hi, I think we need to discuss tagging of Combined Authorities. I spotted an edit that changed the tagging on West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and it was pointed out to me that there were already other instances of similar tagging for Combined Authorities (Greater Manchester for example).