They used to be simple, now they're somewhat more complex thanks to unitary authorities.
Prior to sometime in the nineties, we used to have the countries (England, Scotland, Wales) separated into counties (e.g. Hampshire, West Sussex etc) or metropolitan counties (Greater London, Greater Manchester etc) and then each county comprised a series of districts or boroughs. Now we have unitary authorities, these perform the functions of both counties and districts - a unitary authority is typically a former district or borough which has taken on all the county functions, so that the county council is no longer responsible for anything in that area. It's a little hard to map onto the French system but at a guess, a county is intermediate in importance between a French region and department. Nick -----cquest <cqu...@openstreetmap.fr> wrote: ----- To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org From: cquest <cqu...@openstreetmap.fr> Date: 10/10/2013 04:12PM Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] ISO3166 on GB admin boundaries You can also add FIPS and NUTS code at the same time... but they may not match the same area. I must admit that up to now I've not been able to understand GB administrative subdivisions ;) ----- Christian Quest - cqu...@openstreetmap.fr -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/ISO3166-on-GB-admin-boundaries-tp5780969p5780975.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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