whosonfirst-data GB places without `wof:name` properties

The following places in admin-gb don't have names:

Sep 27 '23 15:09 tomtaylor

Are these non-civil parishes? Do they have names or they statistical gores?

Sep 27 '23 15:09 nvkelso

Here's an example: https://spelunker.whosonfirst.org/id/1360817437/

I have to admit, I have never learnt what a statistical gore is 😬

Sep 27 '23 15:09 tomtaylor

Confirmed the name is missing as we got this (and likely the other) features from Quattroshapes, and there the qs:type = Non-Civil Parish or Community.

But given the feature is in an urban area, it really should have a name!

Statistical gore in WOF have the following meaning:

An optional boolean value that, when true, represents an “area” of unincorporated status without self-governance.

In the US and some other countries it's used for extremely rural areas, including forest and park land without human settlements.

Looking at a few more examples, I don't think statistical gore is the right approach here as they are in urban areas with people. They are all Non-Civil Parish or Community, so we need to search out names for them and then set the names.

I'll be reviewing UK geography and doing some imports / refreshes as part of https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst-data/issues/1871 in the next week, so let's do that first to see if this can get solved via a "configuration changed" process...

Sep 27 '23 17:09 nvkelso

I've been reading more about UK administrative geography. These unnamed non-civil parishes came to WOF via Quattroshapes, via the OS. OS doesn't name them. For most (but not) all of the unnamed features WOF in the past created named child locality features. Resulting in 99% the same features (marked coterminous) between localadmin and locality.

I think most of these localadmin should actually be deprecated and superseded into the features they are already marked coterminous with.

Then we'd only have ~ 361 localadmin across all of UK.

Oct 08 '23 04:10 nvkelso