[OSM-talk-be] Fixing administrative borders

[Maarten Deen]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:04:56 +0200, Ben Laenen wrote:
> Ralf Hermanns wrote:
>> I think there is conflicting information here:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative and 
>> here:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Boundaries
>>
>> On the Tag:boundary=administrative page (first link) it says
>> communities/provinces go on level 5 and arrondisments on 6 - while 
>> on the
>> subproject page it only list the language communites on level 5 and 
>> puts
>> provinces onto 6 (thereby moving arrondisments and towns further 
>> down)
>
> Don't have much time to reply, so a short one:
>
> Always look at the country specific page to get the answers. The
> international
> page is just there for some "guiding", but the countries have to make 
> their
> own rules. As is the case for Belgium.
>
> country: level 2
> regions: level 4
> communities: level 5
> provinces: level 6
> arrondissements: level 7
> municipalities: level 8
> district/deelgemeentes/sections: level 9

Then why is this information not on the international page? There is 
absolutely no reason to have conflicting information on a wiki.
In this list I am missing single towns. A municipality consists of 
multiple towns. Should it not be: municipality:8, town:9, 
district/deelgemeentes/sections:10?
I assume 10 can be used for sububurbs/wijken too? (does Belgium have 
that concept like the Netherlands?)

> I've just spent some time yesterday fixing numerous borders in
> Wallonia which were tagged incorrectly...

That would probably have been avoided if the international page had 
shown the same information as the national one.

Maarten