[OSM-talk-be] some thoughts and remarks about border mapping

[Ben Laenen]

On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Luc Van den Troost wrote:
> An exception might be the districts or 'deelgemeenten' where you can
> have districts in one comunity, bot not in the other. F.i. district
> of Ekeren borders the comunity of Stabroek where (i think) there are
> no 'districts' present.

If you use the term "district", then indeed, Antwerp is the only 
municipality in Belgium that has districts.

District is just a special form of "deelgemeente" that has its own 
district counsel which means extra elections. So the term we'd need to 
use for OSM would be deelgemeente.

But yeah, not all municipalities have deelgemeentes. I thought Stabroek 
has two though: Hoevenen and Stabroek itself. Municipalities like 
Borsbeek, Wijnegem or Wommelgem have no deelgemeentes.

> A (probably much too) trivial thought about admin_levels... Is it
> possible to tag the border part between Lillo and Doel (Schelde river
> north of Antwerpen) as
>
> admin_level= 6;7;8;9
> meaning this border is for province, arrondissement, city and
> district.

Yeah, if multiple values were supported, which they aren't at the 
moment.

Ben