[OSM-talk-be] Arrondissement Verviers boundary

Ben Laenen benlaenen at gmail.com
Thu Nov 8 15:46:20 UTC 2012


On Thursday 08 November 2012 16:34:23 Sander Deryckere wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to organise the boundaries a bit, there's not a lot of work on
> it, so it's basically checking if there are no problems.
> 
> There is a problem I have found with Verviers though. If you look at the
> relation (http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1407211) you see
> that as subareas, the Arondissement of Verviers has a French speaking part,
> and the German community.
> 
> That French speaking part get's a strange boundary type
> (boundary=administrative_fraction), combined with an admin_level=7 tag and
> the German speaking part has a boundary=political tag.

German Community should be a boundary=administrative + admin_level=5

Who keeps changing it to a boundary=political on the wiki anyway?

> As administrative boundaries should be nested nicely, I propose to delete
> the boundary 2436189, and to use the municipalities of the Arrondissement
> of Verviers as subareas. Just as with any other arrondissement.

Boundaries don't need to be nested. In our country it's impossible to do so 
anyway.

Ben




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