On 24-Dec-16 04:40 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
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.
Err does this mean there are areas in NSW that have no 'local government
area'?
Or did you mean '/"local government area" is used in a number of pieces
of legislation because different rules apply if you are in a local
government area or another 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.
Personally I would want to get away from the hair splitting and get back
to mapping.
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