Hi, thanks for all the responses. I have started mapping community councils in Edinburgh. This link is useful for anyone else planning to do so: http://socprojects.napier.ac.uk/is/Edinburgh/
I will hold off on adding area committees for now. As far as I can tell they often coincide with community council boundaries, which is helpful if we decide in future they should be added. Saoirse On 26 May 2018 at 14:32, SK53 <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > Adding such things tends to be down to local mappers. The best source for > accurate boundaries is OS Open Data Boundary Line: this needs a little > experience to process well, but IIRC JOSM handles it reasonably well. > > I don't think area committees, at least in Argyll & Bute, have anything > like the same powers and responsibilities as English District Councils (the > main admin_level=8 grouping), and technically are committees of the full > council just like finance, planning etc., rather than being separate legal > entities. (Such powers as are delegated are mentioned alongside the basic > delegations to officers needed for effective administration, see A&B's > constitution > <https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/council-and-government/constitution-part-c_0.pdf>. > A good concrete example is that English District Councils have Returning > Officers, whereas the A&B Returning Officer is the Head of Customer > Services.) Nor am I sure if the area committees have any dedicated staff, > although I find it hard to see how they can achieve anything without a > minimum of secretarial support. > > I would therefore suggest these are not formal administrative boundaries > (in OSM terms), and certainly the admin_level=8 should be avoided. We don't > do well in keeping non-formal admin boundaries separate from other types of > boundaries (e.g., wards which are essentially a political boundary > determined by the boundary commission, even if ward councillors may get > limited budgets and councils may align service provision with the wards). > > As an interim approach I'd suggest using admin_level=9, but I think we > could do with a bit more of a re-think of some of our boundary tagging (the > bodies with powers 'devolved' upwards, such as the West Midlands Combined > Authority (currently tagged admin_level=6, but an anomaly), is another case. > > Jerry > > On 26 May 2018 at 13:48, S M <llamas...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, this is my first post on this forum. >> >> My question is: is there any reason why community councils in Scotland >> are not mapped? I ask because I do a lot of mapping in Angus, and I was >> planning to map the community councils for Angus council area, but I wanted >> to check first. These community councils do not have as many powers as >> English civil parishes and Welsh communities, but they do have a few >> statutory powers. >> >> If they have just not been done yet, I will get started doing Angus >> council area's community councils, and I can do Edinburgh's as well. They >> would be admin_level=10 to fit with English civil parishes and Welsh >> communities. It is worth noting that Scotland also has "area committees" >> which some council areas (such as Glasgow, Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute >> etc) have devolved certain powers to. If these were to be mapped they would >> be admin_level=8 presumably. >> >> Thanks. >> Saoirse >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> >
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