[OSM-talk-be] Fixing administrative borders

[Maarten Deen]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:22:28 +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Maarten Deen <mdeen at xs4all.nl> 
> wrote:
>
>>> 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?)
>
> 'Deelgemeente' in Belgium is a different concept than in the
> Netherlands. They are former municipalities, which in the 1960s or
> 1970s have fused into larger municipalities. Thus, a
> deelgemeente/district/section is more like a town than like a wijk.

Ok, I've also looked at wikipedia, to me it seems that from low 
admin_level to high it should be:
- Municipality (Gemeente/Commune)
- Deelgemeente/district
- Town
- Suburb (Wijk)

That would then suggest that everything from region down should be 
dropped one admin_level:

country: level 2
regions: level 3
communities: level 4
provinces: level 5
arrondissements: level 6
municipalities: level 7
district/deelgemeentes/sections: level 8
town: level 9
suburb: level 10

Or start using admin_level=11.

Maarten