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

[ivom]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Ben Laenen wrote:

> 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.

well, I was thinking to start with the densily built-up areas/districts 
in antwerp. Berendrecht-Zandvliet-Lillo could maybe be regarded as an 
exception, but we'll see. Getting started figuring out this puzzle is 
going to take some time :)

kind regards,
ivom