[OSM-talk-be] Boundaries (was: Sea borders)

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 11 November 2008, Ben Laenen wrote:
> Should we make a boundary for the territorial waters or for the
> exclusive economic zone? The geographical data for the latter is well
> defined (see
> http://reflex.raadvst-consetat.be/reflex/pdf/Mbbs/1999/07/10/62687.pd
>f). Territorial waters are just described as "first 12 seamiles of the
> EEZ" which is a bit more difficult to extract.

I've opted for the territorial waters as the outer limit of the country 
border. We may have to get some international tags for the EEZ in a 
later stage.


I've also started the page at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Boundaries to 
manage all kinds of relations (if someone has time it should also list 
all municipalities and their deelgemeentes...).

Now, I have a problem with this, and like to hear your ideas on this: 
the official name of Belgium is "Kingdom of Belgium" (in 
Dutch/French/German of course). For now, I just used Belgium, but we 
may have to include the other one as well.

The same problem with the regions. Flemish Region is usually referred to 
as Flanders, and the Walloon Region as Wallonia. And I haven't been 
really consistent there so I picked the official name for now.

Obviously both names are valid, and I've looked at wikipedia and in the 
infoboxes they use "native_name" for the full name. So I'd like to 
propose that "name" has the short name and "native_name" the full one 
in OSM. Do others agree?


Final issue: what should the name tag be for Belgium? Just the 
English "Belgium", or "België - Belgique - Belgien"? In Germany they 
chose the German name, in the Netherlands the English.

Greetings
Ben