[OSM-talk-be] Fixing administrative borders

[Luc Van den Troost]

Hi,

I made the same remark as Ralf about the 'level 5 - comunities'
borders some years ago, but at that time I got the impression it 'is
not something you should discuss about'...

Comunities are made up of people, not of area. So putting
communitie-borders on the map is kind of insane.

Just didn't want to start a civil- or mapping war about that at that
time, don't even know if a discussion about that on a Belgian forum is
possible at all.

Do you want to put a level 5 border around a Flemish school in
Brussels, or around a French speaking school in the
'faciliteitengemeenten'? A moving border if a Flemish class visits the
cascades of coo?

Luc / Speedy

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> 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
>
> I've just spent some time yesterday fixing numerous borders in Wallonia which
> were tagged incorrectly...
>
> Greetings
> Ben
>
>
>
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