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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=NL-BE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hi to all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Following a question on the forum [1], pointed out to me by escada, I think it might be useful to ask the mailing list for a general opinion as well… It’s about how to map part-municipality relations [2], something I tend to do from time to time so… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I think this issue has probably been discussed a few times already on the mailing list and wiki (but without reaching a clear consensus on solid guidelines for the smallest admin_levels?) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>So here is a summary of how I think the matter stands and how I try to map accordingly: (for Dutch, see the forum post) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Admin_level=8: municipality <br>admin_level=9: “part-municipality”; areas that were a separate municipality up until 1950-1960 <br>admin_level=10: a distinct, major part of a (part-)municipality, with a distinctive ‘core’ (village/hamlet/…) and a well-defined boundary; major splits from the original municipality, or suburbs/large neighbourhoods (“wijk”) of the ‘new’ municipality <br>admin_level=11: smaller split parts of ex-municipalities, smaller neighbourhoods (“buurt”), statistical sectors (NIS-INS)? <br>or admin_level=12 for statistical sectors (IF they are to be mapped in OSM at all)? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Of course admin_level>=9 has no clear legal basis anymore (except for the districts in Antwerp, and maybe the statistical sectors), only a historical-sociological-mental-… one, so they are hard to define and classify hierarchically, both in OSM and in ‘real life’… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Open questions: <br>should the whole territory in the end be divided in admin_level=9 relations? (what with split ex-municipalities? And never-merged ones?)<br>is one admin_level relation ‘allowed’ to have direct subareas of different levels? (e.g. both AL9 and AL10 as subareas of an AL8) or is the hierarchy to be strictly followed (an AL10 always has to be in an AL9, and basically follow the letter codes of the NIS-INS for AL9s)?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>---<br>[1] <a href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30946">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30946</a> <br>[2] specifically Oombergen: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3395550">http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3395550</a> <br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>