Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Andy Townsend
On 26/01/2016 17:19, Walter Nordmann wrote: Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing Ireland (the island) is normally handled as one entity in OSM, so tends to be covered by

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Killyfole and District Development Association
Hi Walter, We don't actually have defined cities like in other parts of the world. In fact there are only 5 which are classed as cities. They are Armagh, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Lisburn and Newry. Historically, each city had its own council. But recently the councils have been merged

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Walter Nordmann
thx, Colin. But it can't be ok that there are no city boundaries in N-I any more. Ok, counties may be historic now, but Cities? see: https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=belfast%2C ireland only result is a place-node. OMG Regards walter ___

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Colin Smale
Cities in the UK is a title awarded to a "place" by the Crown (formally). The status has to be awarded to some entity, which is usually an existing local government unit. Its boundaries are therefore inherited from the local government unit which holds the city status. Not to be confused with

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Walter Nordmann
Am 26.01.2016 um 20:41 schrieb Brian Prangle: AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian No problem with this. But where are the Cities? very strange rgds walter ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-27 Thread Steve Doerr
Looks like there is some open data available including 2012 districts (I think these are the 'super councils' referred to):

[Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Walter Nordmann
Hi, any reason why there are only admin boundaries with admin_level=10 in Northern Ireland? No counties (AL6), no cities (AL8), no Suburbs(AL9) - nothing regards walter/germany ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Colin Smale
What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The boundaries seem to be (still) there in OSM, but with boundary=historic admin_level=6. I am not sure where the existing AL10 data came from, and what these

Re: [Talk-GB] Admin Boundaries in Northern Ireland

2016-01-26 Thread Brian Prangle
AL10 boundaries came from the OSM Ireland Project on Townlands rgds Brian On 26 January 2016 at 17:38, Colin Smale wrote: > What is missing, is AL8 - used for "Districts" in the UK. Counties used to > exist in NI but they are now defunct as administrative entities. The >