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121735942 about 3 years ago

Yes, the regions are losing their boundary=administrative and admin_level=5 tagging.

121737537 about 3 years ago

You can change them all back again now, as the original edit was erroneous.

121735942 about 3 years ago

English regions have been abolished and never were administrative anyway. Admin level 6 is not appropriate here anyway. Please take care to check with local mappers first before making this kind of important change!

121481662 about 3 years ago

Too late, some else has already fixed it. I wanted you to do it... But please take note for the future.

121481662 about 3 years ago

Hi!
Please revert the admin_centre of Myddle & Broughton parish to the place node 333249053 . As per wiki and UK tagging conventions.... Thanks!

120360787 over 3 years ago

Oops! Sorry about that, I had a few crashes while I was doing this. I think it's OK now. I will check again in a couple of hours. Thanks for flagging it up!

119242068 over 3 years ago

Bedankt Leo, ik was inderdaad de haltevolgorde helemaal vergeten!

118784537 over 3 years ago

Yes, it would not be incorrect to remove the tag from the way completely. It is not my personal preference, as it is sometimes difficult to distinguish one line from another (in various editors) without this kind of "hint" though. There appears to be a kind of undocumented hierarchy, with "administrative" at the top, then "political", "historic" etc all the way down to "national_park"; the tradition is to tag the ways with the boundary type which is highest in the "hierarchy" of all the boundaries of which the way is a member.

118784537 over 3 years ago

boundary ways that are *only* for boundary=political relations should not be tagged as boundary=administrative.... better to set them to boundary=political

117783715 over 3 years ago

Thanks for spotting that, I have fixed it.

117844015 over 3 years ago

Thanks!

117844015 over 3 years ago

Hi... water=canal should be on a polygon enclosing the area covered by water, whereas waterway=canal goes on the centreline/fairway. Take a look at osm.wiki/Tag:water%3Dcanal

116480599 over 3 years ago

Hi Will
Please remember that others may have different priorities to yourself. Comments like "I see no point..." are asking for trouble.....
Thanks

75046427 over 3 years ago

Your source, https://www.mapping.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ , doesn't appear to be accessible to the public. How do you get access to this resource?

114077685 over 3 years ago

I would say so. That is the way it is normally done in the UK, especially where the exact boundary cannot be determined. Such a node already exists, though.... osm.org/node/26703040

114077685 over 3 years ago

Regarding admin boundaries, you might find this interesting: osm.wiki/User:Csmale/ukboundaries

114077685 over 3 years ago

Well, let's start with the fact that the admin boundaries in the UK are pretty much complete and correct. I maintain them personally. That's not to say there are no mistakes out there, but there aren't going to be many. If you see something you think is wrong I would be happy to investigate/advise specific cases.
Next thing is that, unlike many countries, the boundaries of administrative entities bear no deliberate resemblance to either electoral subdivisions, nor addresses, nor settlements. In general, named settlements don't have defined boundaries; there are huge areas which are not clearly in a single settlement - they may be "no-man's land" or it may be conjectural. St Helens is a good example; there is no documented boundary of an area called "St Helens" except the Borough (which contains large rural areas outside the town) and the parliamentary constituency which is a different game entirely. There is no town council, and there is no official boundary of the town (as a "settlement"). You cannot draw a line around the town and say that one side is categorically "in" St Helens and the other side is not. The fact that it would make sense if such an area would exist (looking at adjoining boundaries etc) does not mean that it does exist (remembering the OSM rule - one object IRL means one object in OSM).

114077685 over 3 years ago

District wards and civil parishes are connected only by coincidence. A ward is basically for convenience at election times (and are tagged as boundary=political), whereas a civil parish often has its own local council.

You seem not to be based in the UK, judging by the timestamps on youw work. I suggest you abstain from making changes to UK boundaries until you understand the system a bit better, lest you start to annoy people.

114077685 over 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for responding. I have taken the admin tagging off of your new St Helens boundary as it does not correspond to any (local) government entity. I see you have now tagged the source as "Ordnance Survey" - exactly which OS dataset did you use for the geometry (not just the existence) of this boundary? Is it possible that it is an electoral boundary?

115191122 over 3 years ago

Are you sure about this? There are several relations for Rochefort, as a settlement and as an administrative entity. I think you may have made a mistake here. Do you have personal knowledge of Rochefort? By the way, it is expected in OSM that you respond to changeset comments, and take them seriously. Thanks!