Generally speaking this list is pretty poor, if is is meant to be complete. If it's not meant to be complete, then oh well. Things are misclassified (Derry), outright missing (Bedfordshire, Lincolnshire, Leicester, London Borough of Bexley, Hammersmith and Fulham, etc etc).
Whoever prepared this doesn't appear to have been familiar with UK subdivisions given the names for the units Metropolitan counties still exist, only their councils were abolished. For some reason this only lists 3 of them, despite there being no different between T&W, West Midlands and West Yorkshire; which are listed, and Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and Merseyside, which aren't (and neither are their subcomponents). On Dec 3, 2007 9:02 AM, Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a guest only on this list, having subscribed for the sole > purpose of asking this question but I thought it was not really > something for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > > I have extracted the following list of "second-level administrative > areas" for the UK from a data source named GADM. Each of these comes > with a bounding polygon, the license of which is a bit unclear to me > so I'd rather not import them into OSM right away, but I think it > would be ok for me to use these polygons to extract "mini planets" for > each of the areas. > > My question to you is, (a) would such "mini planets" be useful to > folks in the UK (does somebody else already do it, or does somebody > want to do it if I hand him Osmosis-compatible polygon definitions for > each of the areas?), and (b) is the list of administrative areas > below halfway sensible, or is it a mix of various levels that would > only confuse people and nobody would know where to look for his area? > > For bonus points, (c) does the list cover the whole of the UK? > > It certainly looks confusing to *me* but then I'm from the other side > of the Channel! > > It seems obvious that "Administrative Counties" and "Unitary > Authorities" are in England, "Districts" are in N.Ireland and "Unitary > Districts" as well as the island regions in Scotland. > > But is it correct that London Boroughs are on the same level as these? > Is there really a difference between an "Administrative County" and a > mere "County" (as Berkshire is listed) and the three "Metropolitan > Counties" in the list, or is this some kind of data processing > artifact? > > What's with Derry, listed as "London Borough (City)", I always thought > Derry was in Ireland? And why is Kingston upon Thames listed as > "London Borough (royal)"? > > Bye > Frederik > > Administrative County Buckinghamshire > Administrative County Cambridgeshire > Administrative County Cheshire > Administrative County Cornwall > Administrative County Cumbria > Administrative County Devon > Administrative County Dorset > Administrative County Durham > Administrative County East Sussex > Administrative County Essex > Administrative County Gloucestershire > Administrative County Hampshire > Administrative County Hertfordshire > Administrative County Kent > Administrative County Lancashire > Administrative County Leicestershire > Administrative County Norfolk > Administrative County North Yorkshire > Administrative County Northumberland > Administrative County Oxfordshire > Administrative County Shropshire > Administrative County Somerset > Administrative County Staffordshire > Administrative County Surrey > Administrative County Warwickshire > Administrative County West Sussex > Administrative County Wiltshire > County Berkshire > District Antrim > District Ards > District Armagh > District Ballymena > District Ballymoney > District Banbridge > District Belfast > District Carrickfergus > District Castlereagh > District Coleraine > District Cookstown > District Craigavon > District Down > District Dungannon > District Fermanagh > District Larne > District Limavady > District Lisburn > District Magherafelt > District Moyle > District Newry and Mourne > District Newtownabbey > District North Down > District Omagh > District Strabane > Island area Eilean Siar > Island area Orkney Islands > Island area Shetland Islands > London Borough Barking and Dagenham > London Borough Brent > London Borough Bromley > London Borough Camden > London Borough Croydon > London Borough Ealing > London Borough Enfield > London Borough Hackney > London Borough Haringey > London Borough Harrow > London Borough Havering > London Borough Hillingdon > London Borough Hounslow > London Borough Islington > London Borough Lambeth > London Borough Lewisham > London Borough Merton > London Borough Newham > London Borough Redbridge > London Borough Richmond upon Thames > London Borough Southwark > London Borough Sutton > London Borough Tower Hamlets > London Borough Waltham Forest > London Borough Wandsworth > London Borough (City) Derry > London borough (royal) Kingston upon Thames > Metropolitan county Tyne and Wear > Metropolitan county West Midlands > Metropolitan county West Yorkshire > Unitary authority Bath and North East Somerset > Unitary authority Blackburn with Darwen > Unitary authority Bournemouth > Unitary authority Brighton and Hove > Unitary authority Darlington > Unitary authority East Riding of Yorkshire > Unitary authority Halton > Unitary authority Hartlepool > Unitary authority Isle of Wight > Unitary authority Luton > Unitary authority Medway > Unitary authority Middlesbrough > Unitary authority North Lincolnshire > Unitary authority North Somerset > Unitary authority Peterborough > Unitary authority Poole > Unitary authority Redcar and Cleveland > Unitary authority Rutland > Unitary authority South Gloucestershire > Unitary authority Southend-on-Sea > Unitary authority Stockton-on-Tees > Unitary authority Swindon > Unitary authority Telford and Wrekin > Unitary authority Thurrock > Unitary authority Torbay > Unitary authority (city) Derby > Unitary Authority (city) Kingston upon Hull > Unitary authority (city) Nottingham > Unitary authority (city) Plymouth > Unitary authority (city) Portsmouth > Unitary authority (city) Southampton > Unitary authority (city) Stoke-on-Trent > Unitary authority (city) York > Unitary authority (Wales) Anglesey > Unitary authority (Wales) Blaenau Gwent > Unitary authority (Wales) Bridgend > Unitary authority (Wales) Caerphilly > Unitary authority (Wales) Cardiff > Unitary authority (Wales) Carmarthenshire > Unitary authority (Wales) Conwy > Unitary authority (Wales) Denbighshire > Unitary authority (Wales) Flintshire > Unitary authority (Wales) Gwynedd > Unitary authority (Wales) Merthyr Tydfil > Unitary authority (Wales) Monmouthshire > Unitary authority (Wales) Neath Port Talbot > Unitary authority (Wales) Newport > Unitary authority (Wales) Pembrokeshire > Unitary authority (Wales) Powys > Unitary authority (Wales) Rhondda, Cynon, Taff > Unitary authority (Wales) Swansea > Unitary authority (Wales) Torfaen > Unitary authority (Wales) Wrexham > Unitary district Aberdeenshire > Unitary district Angus > Unitary district Argyll and Bute > Unitary district Clackmannanshire > Unitary district Dumfries and Galloway > Unitary district East Ayrshire > Unitary district East Dunbartonshire > Unitary district East Lothian > Unitary district East Renfrewshire > Unitary district Falkirk > Unitary district Fife > Unitary district Highland > Unitary district Inverclyde > Unitary district Midlothian > Unitary district Moray > Unitary district North Ayshire > Unitary district North Lanarkshire > Unitary district Perthshire and Kinross > Unitary district Renfrewshire > Unitary district Scottish Borders > Unitary district South Ayrshire > Unitary district South Lanarkshire > Unitary district Stirling > Unitary district West Dunbartonshire > Unitary district West Lothian > Unitary district (city) Aberdeen > Unitary district (city) Dundee > Unitary district (city) Edinburgh > Unitary district (city) Glasgow > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb >
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