[OSM-talk-be] Brussels

[Ben Laenen]

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:27:11 André Pirard wrote:
> The issue seems clear to me, especially in French.
> We have 3 kinds of persons according to the official language they
> speak, but we have *4 territories* one of which is bilingual in the
> sense that their people can choose between two languages. "behorend tot
> zowel" is ambiguous: it should made clear that it speaks of the persons
> and not the territories.
> But that's obvious. A territory cannot be inside 2 disjoint territories,
> and that's the problem...
> As OSM is obviously drawing territories, the communities do not fit in
> relations, these must contain territories
> 
> As nobody cares, as I am presently involved in Brussels modifications,
> and as I know boundaries well, I can do that:
> - add a 4th territory aka community for Brussels.

Please don't make up names. There's no Brussels community so don't invent one. 
The one thing I now agree with is getting the communities out of the 
administrative boundaries, if only to please software that gets its mind blown 
when it belongs to two entities of the same kind at once.

But that seems to have happened anyway already, see 
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/78967 . You just have to wait 
until nominatim has updated its database.

Greetings,
Ben