Hello folks,
I would like thoughts from list subscribers on a specific issue relating
to the types of administrative or other areas that are included in
heritage datasets. I'm interested in instances of these area types being
used to assist with the retrieval or presentation of heritage data.
What is needed is as full a list as needed of what types of area are in
use.
MIDAS already identifies:-
Country
County
District
Unitary Authority
Civil Parish
Named Location
To which we might add e.g. Government Office Regions
Clearly there are also others...
1) other current area types (e.g. those equivalents to Civil Parishes in
use in Scotland, Ireland, and Wales).
2) historic area types that we might want to include, such as pre-1974
English counties, ecclesiastical parishes.
But I'm sure there are others. Does anyone use electoral wards for
example?
Please could folk contact me (either off-list or simply posted to FISH
to get discussion going) and let me know what they use.
Edmund Lee
FISH Interoperability Toolkit.
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