<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Overpass is the answer to your question.<br><br></div>You can use overpass to extract the boundary polygons, and then other software to convert it to a rendered map.<br><br></div>See this example query: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/8rD" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/8rD</a><br><br></div>With that query, you can simply extract all municipalities (mapped with admin_level=8) in the province West-Vlaanderen. A smaller area makes it easier to test. To load Belgium, you should just switch the name to "Belgium", and the admin_level to 2 (for national boundaries).<br><br></div>It's possible that Belgium becomes too heavy for overpass-turbo, in that case, you can go via Overpass API directly (see <a href="http://www.overpass-api.de/query_form.html" target="_blank">http://www.overpass-api.de/query_form.html</a> ), which doesn't render the received data, but just gives you the data as text.<br><br></div>Also note that the output format is defined to be JSON, if you prefer other formats, there are more choices: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL#Output_Format_.28out.29" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL#Output_Format_.28out.29</a><br><br></div>Is that enough for the municipalities? Or do you also want more info on rendering the maps?<br><br></div>For the zip codes, well, those aren't completely mapped yet. Some municipalities have multiple zip codes, and it's very hard to find correct boundaries for those.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Sander<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-03-28 13:36 GMT+01:00 Alexander Mikhailian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikhailian@mova.org" target="_blank">mikhailian@mova.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br>
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I have an idea for a language study project in Belgium and it would<br>
really help if there were a map of Belgian municipalities with the names<br>
of municipalities or zip codes linked to polygones. I found [1] but it<br>
has only ids of the form "path80-8-8". which is not very helpful.<br>
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Could you by any chance give me hint as to where I can find such a map?<br>
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Thanks in advance,<br>
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Alexander Mikhailian<br>
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[1] <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgium_administrative.svg" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgium_administrative.svg</a><br>
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