Changeset: 62980854
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Closed by smb1001
Tags
build | 2.5-37-ga38498b2 |
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created_by | Potlatch 2 |
version | 2.5 |
Discussion
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Comment from will_p
Hi,
I've been looking at the historic Nottinghamshire county you have been editing here and specifically at places where the current boundary line differs from the historic one. For example, Ilkeston Junction (https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/59365220) was until the 1990s in Nottinghamshire, but it is now Derbyshire. The historic county you have added places it in its present day location in Derbyshire. I was wondering, do the official 'historic counties' actually follow the present day boundaries in this way, or are you just adding the counties approximately?Thanks,
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Comment from smb1001
Hi Will,
I didn't have chance to finish the whole of the traditional border today; I'll try to tomorrow. (I started with duplicating the ceremonial border and am editing the parts that have been altered with modern boundary legislation. The edits I'm doing are as to recreate the traditional borders as accurately as possible (ie probably within 10m), using First Edition OS maps where needed. As you can see from https://bit.ly/1hv6ZL5 (somewhat less accurate than the OS maps) 'ceremonial' Nottinghamshire deviates far less from the traditional boundaries than most other counties. The primary reason that the traditional counties persist today is that they aren't changed by the modern boundary tinkering but reflect how they were for the centuries before. I'll correct Ilkeston (and the rest of the Erewash wiggles) as soon as I get chance.
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