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    Where I tagged some level 9 <span lang="EN-GB">part-municipalities
      I checked the website of the </span><span lang="EN-GB">municipality.
      Mostly they have a list of what they consider as their </span><span
      lang="EN-GB">part-municipalities.<br>
      If they have such a list then it is a better basis for level 9
      part-municipalities than the history of fusions. <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Op 30-11-15 om 19:17 schreef joost
      schouppe:<br>
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cite="mid:CAO2_g7J_4Vs8JusUHzkxiKheOBYiMhx_rYOw-5rUtg-rBsLioA@mail.gmail.com"
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      <div dir="ltr">Interesting discussion. I wonder if there is an
        official dataset of "deelgemeenten" out there. They still exist
        very much in the minds of people, often being used in adresses
        for instance. So I do think they belong in OSM. A clustered
        dataset of statistical sectors might help, if ever that becomes
        open data.
        <div><br>
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        <div>For the one-to-many relationships of these "deelgemeenten",
          I wonder how locals percieve them. To stick to the Antwerp
          example, do the people of the former Ekeren municipality that
          now belongs to Kappelen consider themselves somehow still as
          Ekeren? I would suggest only mapping one-on-one relations (the
          cases before the "or"), and leave the more complicated ones
          out for the moment. Then investigate whether or not they exist
          in the heads of people.</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>As for the statistical sectors, I don't see much use of
          adding them OSM. At the city of Antwerp, we actually release
          "ours" as open data [1], so, for example users of the
          mentioned Buurtmonitor might take the data elsewhere and make
          their own maps. Makes me wonder if we actually own the data
          enough to do that.</div>
        <div>And indeed, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://gent.buurtmonitor.be">gent.buurtmonitor.be</a>
          uses basically the same kind if setup Antwerp does.</div>
        <div>--</div>
        <div>[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://opendata.antwerpen.be/datasets/statistische-sectoren">http://opendata.antwerpen.be/datasets/statistische-sectoren</a></div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2015-11-30 17:25 GMT+01:00 Vincent Van
          Eyken <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:vincent.vaneyken@gmail.com" target="_blank">vincent.vaneyken@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thanks for the
                    feedback. <br>
                    I understand the argument for neatly nested
                    relations, and I agree, it should be that
                    straightforward. So, the existing anomalies should
                    be fixed. But it’s the “or” part of the solution
                    that still poses a problem then: putting a
                    less-significant area on the same level (9) as
                    complete part-municipalities or annexing it as A10
                    to the nearest A9 to which it never really belonged.
                    What criteria to use? <br>
                    <br>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And is there
                    (should there be?) any ‘good’ way to still link
                    ‘orphaned’ and split-off areas to their pre-1977
                    configuration, since a boundary relation (like the
                    one created for Oombergen), though historically
                    verifiable, does not correspond to any current
                    administrative (or other) reality. <br>
                    <br>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And to digress a
                    bit on statistical sectors:</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I just took them
                    as an example, since they are the smallest
                    well-defined entities, and can be viewed by the
                    public in several applications. [1] Indeed, they are
                    not available as open data yet (and won’t be soon, I
                    guess?) and I’m certainly not suggesting an illegal
                    import. But if they are ever to be imported or
                    mapped, I would suggest admin_level 11 or 12,
                    leaving room for distinct parts of
                    part-municipalities that tare larger than sectors.
                    Or indeed dump the admin part and just use
                    boundary=statistical, since they are essentially
                    just that. <br>
                    <br>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">E.g. the Stad
                    Antwerpen administration is clearly making use of
                    the sectors [2], calling them “buurten”. Clusters of
                    sectors are called “wijken”, which in their turn are
                    grouped together into the “districten”. Translated
                    into admin_levels this would give: buurt (11) <
                    wijk (10) < district (9). Note however: District
                    Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo only contains the “wijk”
                    Polder + an uninhabited port/industrial area, but
                    was never a municipality in itself, as it is the
                    merger of 3 pre-1958 municipalities, that are still
                    more easily distinguishable than many “wijken” of
                    the more urbanized districts. <br>
                    <br>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I believe Ghent
                    uses a similar system, though there several
                    (super-)sectorial boundaries not always match the
                    pre-1977 municipal ones, I think. <br>
                    <br>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Anyway the
                    sectors are not yet the issue here.</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">---</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">[1] </span><span
                    lang="EN-GB"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.ngi.be/topomapviewer/public"
                      target="_blank"><span lang="FR">http://www.ngi.be/topomapviewer/public</span></a></span><span
                    lang="FR"> ; </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.ruimtemonitor.be/geoloket/"
                      target="_blank"><span lang="FR"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ruimtemonitor.be/geoloket/">http://www.ruimtemonitor.be/geoloket/</a></span></a></span><span
                    lang="FR"> ; etc</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[2] <a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.antwerpen.buurtmonitor.be/"
                      target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.antwerpen.buurtmonitor.be/">http://www.antwerpen.buurtmonitor.be/</a></a>
                  </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"
                    lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    name="15159380f8588025__MailEndCompose"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"
                      lang="EN-GB"> </span></a></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"><b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
                      lang="NL">Van:</span></b><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
                    lang="NL"> Sander Deryckere [mailto:<a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:sanderd17@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sanderd17@gmail.com">sanderd17@gmail.com</a></a>]
                    <br>
                    <b>Verzonden:</b> maandag 30 november 2015 14:09<br>
                    <b>Aan:</b> OpenStreetMap Belgium <<a
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                      target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:talk-be@openstreetmap.org">talk-be@openstreetmap.org</a></a>><br>
                    <b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSM-talk-be] Sub-municipal
                    admin boundary relations</span></p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt"> </p>
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                            <p class="MsoNormal"
                              style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">IMO,
                              admin levels should nest nicely. That's
                              also why the "gemeenschappen" are no
                              administrative boundaries, but political
                              ones. They don't match with the other
                              structures like provinces and
                              arrondissements.</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">So
                            for Oombergen, there are two possibilities:
                            Split Oombergen in two A9 relations and add
                            them to both municipalities (if the
                            split-off part is big), or keep only one
                            Oombergen relation in one municipality, and
                            add the split-off part to a different
                            part-municipality.</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-left:35.4pt">Part-municipalities
                            are still used in administration (mostly as
                            part of addresses, though bPost doesn't
                            prefer them), and they're verifiable (from
                            historic data). So they fit into OSM.</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">I
                            can also see where you're going with NIS-INS
                            statistical sectors. They're verifiable
                            (from a central authority), well-defined,
                            and used in administration. So if they match
                            the existing boundary definitions, they
                            could be used for an A10 level. Though I
                            wonder where you'll get the data from.
                            AFAIK, NIS-INS data is still closed? Also
                            note that not all boundaries should be
                            administrative. I think adding a
                            boundary=statistical is not an issue in case
                            the statistical boundaries don't match our
                            current administrative ones.</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:35.4pt">And,
                            for all other levels, I fear that it's not
                            really verifiable, which is a
                            key-requirement for inclusion in OSM.</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-left:35.4pt">Regards,</p>
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                          <p class="MsoNormal"
                            style="margin-left:35.4pt">Sander</p>
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                        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:35.4pt">2015-11-30
                          13:34 GMT+01:00 Vincent Van Eyken <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:vincent.vaneyken@gmail.com"
                            target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vincent.vaneyken@gmail.com">vincent.vaneyken@gmail.com</a></a>>:</p>
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                              <p class="MsoNormal"
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                                  lang="EN-GB">Hi to all</span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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… </span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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?) </span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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) </span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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)? </span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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’… </span></p>
                              <p class="MsoNormal"
                                style="margin-left:35.4pt"><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)?</span></p>
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                                  lang="EN-GB">---<br>
                                  [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30946"
                                    target="_blank">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=30946</a>
                                  <br>
                                  [2] specifically Oombergen: <a
                                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                                    href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3395550"
                                    target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3395550">http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3395550</a></a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be</a>
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