[OSM-talk-be] Fixing administrative borders

[Ben Laenen]

Benoit Leseul wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:18, Luc Van den Troost <luc.antw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Comunities are made up of people, not of area. So putting
> > communitie-borders on the map is kind of insane.
> 
> In terms of boundaries, the belgian constitution defines four
> linguistic areas ("régions linguistiques"/"taalgebieden") but not
> communities as geographical entities.
> 
> See Art. 4 :
> http://www.senate.be/doc/const_nl.html#t1
> http://www.senate.be/doc/const_fr.html#t1
> http://www.senate.be/deutsch/const_de.html#t1
> 
> They are all contained into regional boundaries and are identical to
> the regions except for the "deutsche Sprachgebiet".
> 
> I think that's what should be mapped at that level (be it 4 or 5) and
> it would solve the overlap problem.

The idea was to map the communities according to those language areas. If 
everyone agrees to map these language areas instead of communities, fine by 
me, but I just thought it would be odd to see something like "région bilingue 
de Bruxelles-Capitale - tweetalige gebied Brussel-Hoofdstad" appear on the 
map, and because it then looks like the maps you can find on 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium 
which are the maps everyone learns it with at school as well.

Greetings
Ben