<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/29 A.Pirard.Papou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">A.Pirard.Papou@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 2012-11-28 12:55, Jan-willem De
Bleser wrote :<br>
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<pre>On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sander Deryckere <a href="mailto:sanderd17@gmail.com" target="_blank"><sanderd17@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>Why municipalities and not part-municipalities? When you enter a village,
you get signs as these:
<a href="http://1.standaardcdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2009/06/04/A7_BORDJE_IVH.MM.jpg.h170.jpg.280.jpg" target="_blank">http://1.standaardcdn.be/Assets/Images_Upload/2009/06/04/A7_BORDJE_IVH.MM.jpg.h170.jpg.280.jpg</a>
So the part-municipality is in a bigger font than the municipality. I wonder
what's your reason to choose the municipality name if you really want the
lowest admin level.</pre>
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Show me the village borders with a municipality name and I'll change
them.<br>
Send me the GPX traces of village borders and I'll map them.<br>
But they won't be boundary=administrative, nor part of the tree I'm
talking about, because there's no lower administrative entity than a
municipality (except districts of Antwerp if what I read is correct
and complete, and they should of course bear their names).<br></div></blockquote><div><br>I've been adding village boundaries in my area (West-Flanders) for a while now. And West-Flanders is completely mapped. Just go to the relation of West-Flanders (<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/416271">http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/416271</a>) and click through the subareas. You will see that every municipality has some villages included. Like the municiplity "Ieper" has the following part-municipalities:<br>
<table cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1321378" title="">Boezinge (1321378)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1282897" title="">Brielen (1282897)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1169029" title="">Dikkebus (1169029)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1285012" title="">Elverdinge (1285012)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/2241152" title="">Hollebeke (2241152)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1265063" title="">Ieper (1265063)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1274555" title="">Sint-Jan (1274555)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1169024" title="">Voormezele (1169024)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1283697" title="">Vlamertinge (1283697)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1169028" title="">Zillebeke (1169028)</a> als subarea</td>
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<td class="">Relatie <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1285487" title="">Zuidschote (1285487)</a> als subarea<br><br>Also, they are administrative. They are used by the administration of the municipality (public works are negotiated and listed per part-municipality) and they are used by the administration of the inhabitants (when people write down their address, they normally use the part-municipality name). It's not because they don't have something like a "government" that they aren't administrative.<br>
<br>As an example for the negotiation per part-municipality: In Westrozebeke, a part of the municipality of Staden, all fire hydrants are marked with reflecting dots in the asphalt. While the moment you cross the border with Oostnieuwkerke, an other part of Staden, the fire hydrant's aren't marked that way any more.<br>
<br>So I do believe it fits in the admin_level hierarchy. <br><br>Oh, and I don't have GPX traces. I just took the boundaries from old, out-of-copyright, maps, with extra documentation about the changing of boundaries through time. They were hard to trace, so it was a lot of work. But I'm happy that finally search tools work, and say I live in Oostnieuwkerke, and not in Staden.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Sander<br></td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div></div>