Request: Use Vienna District Shapes

Question

Can we use the shape data published by the City of Vienna to subdivide the map for Vienna into the single districts?

 

Unfortunately I don't really have a clue wheter these are useful and / or can be used with the map system, or if it is even wanted to do so.

https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/dataset/2ee6b8bf-6292-413c-bb8b-bd22dbb2ad4b

Answer 1

Project-GC has two levels of sub-division lower than countries - region (typically states or similar) and county. Vienna seems to be a county-level subdivision of Austria, so there is no subdivision level available to put those boundaries in.

That said, if there was a challenge cache which required finds in each district, it would be possible to have a checker created. I have (with the help of the script creator) created a checker along those lines for Canberra: http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC5KB4J/10074

Comments

I think that this is not entirely true - Vienna has to be defined as both a state and a county, else the counties in the other Austrian states would face the same problem (not being able to exist because the "county" space is occupied by the states already), yet they do have their shape data. Vienna, on the other hand, is a bit of a mix. It is both a state and a county in some ways, but the subdivisions of the city work just like they were counties of another Austrian federal state. They have their own local government, census, etc. The only thing they don't have is own car number plates.

Thanks for providing the link to the checker! I think there is at least one challenge like that here.

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Took a quick look at wikipedia and openstreet map.
The areas used as counties in Austria is the one tagged as admin_leve=6 on OSM see the link below
district (Bezirk)  http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/b7Z a

The one in Wien is admin_leve=9
municipal districts (Gemeindebezirke). http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/b7Y

Admin level 6-7 is what is used on pgc as counties. For some reason the the OSM mappers in Austria has tagged the quite different: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative

That also is the same with what is described on the English version of the wikipage below. The map on that wikipage is the same as the pgc countes in Austria. I used the German page in the link because the map there is larger and it is also a nice list there
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Bezirke_und_Statutarst%C3%A4dte_in_%C3%96sterreich

My understanding is that pgc use the "correct" data. Correct is probably the wrong word. I mean that the counties division tries to mean the same thing in all Countries.