I reside in a NSW suburb/locality which was initially given a British name by the early British settlers but very soon they adopted the name used by the local indigenous occupants. My home address continues to have the name used by the original inhabitants.
Some other places and and landmarks are being renamed in recognition of indigenous heritage or people notably Uluru in NT and Barangaroo in NSW. Some newer suburban developments are being officially given indigenous names. Nevertheless some people feel the transition to indigenous names is not happening quickly enough. I support indigenous names being adopted for official usage but it would be premature to adopt names which are not officially used. I think OSM's administrative boundaries must reflect current official status and we should not anticipate future developments until they are officially implemented. As previously discussed, state/territory, LGAs and suburb/localities are the main administrative boundaries used in Australia and we should not anticipate adding other levels until/unless they are officially adopted by government. If indigenous boundaries were to be mapped at the moment, I don't believe they would be "administrative". On Wed, 9 Sep 2020, at 11:01 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > We spoke about the concept of listing Aboriginal Nation addresses a while > back. > > Just reading this article: > https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-10/push-for-indigenous-place-names-in-addresses/12645756 > > ATM, States are admin_level 4 while cities are 6 (have we fixed that > yet?). Would these be listed as admin 5, or would that not be an admin > level? > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
