Hello all,
I'm not sure if this applies to other provinces or not, so I thought I
would ask here.
In Ontario there is a concept of "Business Improvement Area" ("BIA"
for short) that has the power to tax businesses within their zone
(see http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/Page1529.aspx for details).
I want to tag these in OSM, so then you can run a query to find all
businesses within a BIA. Sometimes the boundaries of the BIA are very
tight and just cover things that are actual businesses, and sometimes
the boundaries of a BIA are very loose and cover lots of area
including residential... and when a new business comes up later in
that area it automatically is a part of the BIA.
I am thinking that the *relation type=boundary,
boundary=local_authority *might be applicable here, and define either
a Canada specific definition maybe just Ontario, depending if the
concept exists elsewhere.
I would like to get people's opinion on this idea.... Or please
suggest something else.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Aboundary%3Dlocal_authority
* type <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:type>=boundary
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:type%3Dboundary>
* boundary
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary>=local_authority
* name <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name>=*
* local_authority:CA
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:local_authority:FR&action=edit&redlink=1>=BIA
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