Chapter 6: Adding New Classifications at Levels Beyond the
Tertiary
Once the user has become accustomed to the Nova Scotia Standard
Land Use Classification System, he/she may find that some classifications
are not developed enough to suite his/her needs. The user may
also wish to add new classifications. The following are some instructions
with regards to adding a new classification.
- Make sure that the new classification being suggested complies
with the rationale of the classification system
(see Module 1: Chapter 3).
- As is indicated in the rationale, the new classification should
be activity based. The classification should not
reflect the type of product being produced, land cover, other
physical features of the site, or what
the site is expected to be or used to be, but rather what it currently
is.
- Because this is a Provincial Standard, user's of the classification
system should not alter or add to the Primary, Secondary or Tertiary
levels of the classification system. However, users are encouraged
to further develop the classification system at levels beyond
the tertiary. This is a simple process where the tertiary level
is already standardized. However, for classifications that do
not have standard tertiary categories, the user will have to insert
"false classifications".
The false classifications are necessary to ensure the integrity
of the Nova Scotia Standard. For example: Fishery currently does
not have a secondary or tertiary level, if one would like to break
Fishery down, he/she may do so by inserting ZZ for the secondary
level and ZZ for the tertiary level and then introduce a fourth
and fifth level: Fishery-ZZ-ZZ-Aquaculture. Similarly, if one
were to add a new classification such as Beauty Parlour, the classification
would read as: Services-Personal-ZZ-Beauty Parlour.
- .Each new classification will need a new
code as well, Chapter 3 discusses the methodology used to develop
the coding scheme, that methodology should
be followed with new classifications. Consequently, Aquaculture
would be coded as AQ, so the full code would read: FI-ZZ-ZZ-AQ,
and Beauty Parlour would read as: SE-PE-ZZ-BP. When creating new
codes, it is very important that each is unique, therefore there
may be instances when the methodology may have to be altered to
avoid making duplicate codes.
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