On 13 Jun 2009, at 09:30, Peter Childs wrote:
2009/6/11 Ed Loach <e...@loach.me.uk>:
And here is the current OSM guidance:-
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:admin_level#admin_level
In order to tie in with NUTS and with guidance for other
countries
within OSM we might want to do the following for England
(Scotland
and Wales would be similar but would skip some levels):-
UK (admin_level=2)
England/Wales/Scotland (admin_level=4)
English regions (North East, East of England etc) (also
admin_level=4
as per NUTS)
Ceremonial counties - where they exist (admin_level= 5)
County Councils/Unitary Authorities (admin-level=6)
Districts (admin-level=8) districts / London boroughs /
metropolitan
boroughs.
Whats the simplest way of adding a boundary? I notice that Medway does
not have one, I know ruthley where it should be, but have no idea of
how to go about adding the relevant relation/way. I'm fine adding
Roads and smaller stuff but the boundary stuff just throws me.
It is better to use a relation for the boundary rather than way tags
which used to be the only way to do it. Add the appropriate existing
ways (rivers/roads etc) to a new relation. You may need to split roads/
rivers where the boundary diverges. For some sections of the boundary
you will need to add new ways (where it goes across fields). I just
add a 'note=administrative boundary' tag to those ways.
The only source of data we can legally use for the boundary to by
knowledge is the NPE maps base which shows boundaries as a dotted line
if you are lucky and if they have not moved in the past 50 years. I
also check wikipedia as a cross check (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EnglandMedway.png
) and then the official council website to see if there is general
agreement on the shape and extent.
It isn't perfect - to be perfect our democratic government will need
to persuade the OS to give its citizens the boundaries by which it is
governed. Until now lets do the best we can and when people say they
are wrong we will ask them to provide the information to correct it!
Btw, OSM and the UK Boundaries project got a mention on the Guardians
data blog yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/jun/11/opensourc
Regards,
Peter
Peter.
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