On 23/12/16 09:50, cleary wrote:
I suggest a simple one-word change in the wiki so that Level 6 administrative boundaries in Australia would read "Local Government Area Border (e.g Shire/Council)" replacing "Local Government Authority Border (e.g Shire/Council)" clarifying that we map the area rather than the form of administration in the area.
I completely agree with this proposed change. It will clarify exactly what is supposed to be represented by an admin_level 6 boundary.
In NSW the term "local government area" is used in a number of pieces of legislation because different rules apply if you are in a local government area than if you are not. As a result there is a clear and unambiguous definition of what is and what is not a local government area.
SA doesn't use the term in their legislation but there is a LGA areas dataset available from data.sa.gov.au that defines for each part of SA whether or not it is a local government area.
Hopefully this will stop the rather tedious debate about what exactly constitutes a local government authority.
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