Whoops, this was split into 2 changesets but it merged in my JOSM, hence the short changeset comment. Here are the details of what I've done: 

- Cleaned up huge mess of overlapping boundaries, inconsistent admin levels, broken relations with NB Parishes. 

Updated some 2023 municipal boundaries. Major work needed for language tagging consistency.

Changed all parishes from admin level 6 to 8 in preparation for importing new municipal boundaries.

Rationale for changing parish admin_level is as follows; I cannot start importing new municipalities on top of the existing admin_level=6 as they have different functions and this would not make sense. Municipalities are always admin_level=6 by default. I also Removed some old admin_level=8 villages throughout the province as these boundaries no longer exist due to the 2023 amalgamation. They will be replaced by the import of new municipal boundaries. Now that all parishes are at the appropriate admin_level, this work can continue. 

Many of the boundary ways themselves still need the admin_level=6 tag removed.

Detailed breakdown of changes:
Municipal Regions Imported Thus far: 
- Municipality of Grand Lake
- Haut-Madawaska
- St-Basile First Nation
- Edmunston
- Village of Arcadia
- Miramichi 

Changes in each region:

Grand Lake/Arcadia:
Imported Village of Arcadia municipal boundary; fixed overlapping boundaries with Municipality of Grand Lake. Removed admin_level=6 and admin tags from the parish boundaries. 

Edmunston: 
Updated geometry of St Basile First Nation, created new boundary relation for same and added them as inner members to the city of Edmunston. fixed ridiculous amount of overlapping boundaries, verified and updated all data for Haut-Madawaska, simplified excessive node geometry, updated Edmunston city boundary 

Miramichi: 
Corrected Parishes (Nelson, Newcastle, Northesk, Chatham, Glenelg) to fall within the City of Miramichi. Per the government - "Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their borders."
Parishes within towns which were previously admin_level=9 have been changed to 8 to align with the rest of the data.Updated boundary for the city of miramichi. 
Removed duplicate admin level 8 relation for city of miamichi. Imported new borders for parish of chatham.  

Grand Manan:
Removed admin_level=5 (???) ways splitting the parish and the village. reset to admin level 8 for parish & admin level 6 for village for consistency. snapped parish to village boundary (parishes are tiered higher than villages/municipalities - there is no "border" between the parish and the village, see comment above.

Everywhere else: 
fixed miscellaneous overlapping boundaries, language/tagging issues, removed inconsistent boundary labels between parishes. I did not touch counties at all in this changeset, they seem OK. Please leave a comment below for questions or concerns, I have done my absolute best to avoid causing problems or data errors. 



