[OSM-talk-be] the state of OpenStreetmap in Antwerpen

[Ben Laenen]

On Monday 22 September 2008, ivom wrote:
> Cool idea you've worked out Luc! This thread is already open for some
> time, but I thought to pick in on this, since I just had another one
> with the same data:
>
> Currently there are some landuse=residential polygons to fill the
> residential areas (mapnik), but they are not mapped to the district
> borders, as you might have noticed.

there's the administrative boundary with admin_level=9 for district 
boundaries right now 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Key:boundary). I tagged 
a small part of the border between Berchem and Antwerp districts that 
way.

> From the list you grabbed from the antwerpen.be site, I thinks it is
> doable to determine the borders of every district. I am uncertain if
> using this data for this purpose is legal, any ideas?

Note that postal codes aren't enough to determine the district: 2040 is 
shared between Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo and part of Antwerp. But the 
list has letters with the street district as well. Just keep in mind 
that the boundaries based on that list can be way off sometimes.

To properly map them we need some old maps I guess.

Ben