[OSM-talk-be] My first attempt at a boundary

[Marc Gemis]

Thanks André, I'll add the missing pieces

regards

m


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 8:00 PM, André Pirard <A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Hi Marc,
>
> On 2013-12-04 13:49, Marc Gemis wrote :
>
> Today, I did my first attempt add adding a boundary. The boundary is for
> the deelgemeente Muizen near Mechelen. The changeset is
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/19271107
>
>  I used http://gisgeoloket.provant.be/ to export a jpg file of the
> boundary. I could not use the geo information that was generated by the
> file, probably due to a different projection.I then used JOSM + PicLayer
> plugin for positioning the exported jpg-file manually. Then I tried to
> trace the border.
>
> I don't understand and I can't comment the "geo" things (which file, which
> projections?) but the PicLayer is a method I use and it works fine.
>
>  Please comment on the method and the result
>
> As to the result, compare Muizen<http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3359778>and, for example,
> Dolembreux <http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2792257>.
>
>    - in Belgium, we usually include the key subarea <relation> in the
>    parent reation as you can see in Sprimont<http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2413544>and Mechelen
>    (arr.) <http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2524403>
>    - in Belgium, as in many other counties, we usually add an
>    admin_centre, as well as a name on the borders, which makes it very easy to
>    travel from a municipality to the next (click on Esneux — Dolembreux
>    (180863558) <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/180863558> and you're
>    one click away from "Part of Relation Esneux (2417895)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2417895>(as outer)". Note that character — is not - nor --.
>     - Node Dolembreux (860697753)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/860697753>as admin_centre
>       - Way Chaudfontaine — Dolembreux (182800464)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/182800464>as outer
>       - Way Esneux — Dolembreux (180863558)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/180863558>as outer
>       - Way Sprimont — Dolembreux (198248587)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/198248587>as outer
>       - Way Dolembreux — Gomzé-Andoumont (198186768)<http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/198186768>as outer
>    - a few more tags are usually used, compare.
>
> Not easy to avoid forgetting something, but after you've made one hundred
> of them, it's like a "pater noster" ;-)
> In Belgium, we usually don't write things like this in the wiki. We repeat
> them in e-mail over and over again.
>
> Cheers,
>   André.
>
>
>
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