Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-28 Thread Michael Booth
Fife Council has their boundaries available here: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/fife-community-council-boundaries - but the licence information says "none" so probably need to get them to release it under a proper licence? On 27/05/2018 11:55, Colin Smale wrote: Hi Saoirse, As far as I have b

Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-27 Thread Colin Smale
Hi Saoirse, As far as I have been able to ascertain, the Scottish Government delegated the delineation of the community areas to the councils, and each council seems to have their own policy about open data. In the case of Edinburgh, it looks like they require an attribution: "This information

Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-27 Thread S M
Hi, thanks for all the responses. I have started mapping community councils in Edinburgh. This link is useful for anyone else planning to do so: http://socprojects.napier.ac.uk/is/Edinburgh/ I will hold off on adding area committees for now. As far as I can tell they often coincide with community

Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-26 Thread Colin Smale
Scottish Communities are equivalent to Civil Parishes in England, but with much fewer powers. The whole of Scotland has been divided into Communities - there are no "unparished areas" like there are in England. However, relatively few Communities actually have a Council. In terms of administrative

Re: [Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-26 Thread SK53
Adding such things tends to be down to local mappers. The best source for accurate boundaries is OS Open Data Boundary Line: this needs a little experience to process well, but IIRC JOSM handles it reasonably well. I don't think area committees, at least in Argyll & Bute, have anything like the sa

[Talk-GB] Scottish community councils

2018-05-26 Thread S M
Hi, this is my first post on this forum. My question is: is there any reason why community councils in Scotland are not mapped? I ask because I do a lot of mapping in Angus, and I was planning to map the community councils for Angus council area, but I wanted to check first. These community counci