[OSM-talk-be] Brussels and Belgium

[André Pirard]

On 2013-11-26 21:37, Julien Fastré wrote :
>
> Le 26/11/13 19:06, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
>> Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I have always had a problem with
>> mapping the communities in the first place since they are about
>> the person and not the land.  But there are people that want to
>> map that.  And if we're going to map them than we should try to do
>> it as correctly as possible.
> I do agree with Kurt: Communities are concerned with people, Regio
> with things related to the ground. It make sense to map Regio's: it's
> a territory, we may touch it, sense it. This is not the case with
> communities.
>
> If some people want to map them, I think we should use different key
> than those existing now; they are not appropriated and we are, maybe,
> an unique case in the world.

That's what I was saying in the first message:

> "Communities are people and people cannot be shown on a map, only the
> territories where they live."
>
It's like a monks community: you map the convent, don't you, not the
community.
The convent is the "area" where the monks live.
And if two communities live in the same convent, will you ever say that
the convent is inside two communities?
Should you want to map the two communities and their inside, you would
have to map every monk and include them in the correct relation. Sounds
crazy?  Not my invention ;-)

Likely, Brussels is not in two communities as some persons put it.
Members of two different communities live in Brussels, that's all
And that can only be shown by the name ("bilingual", just as "convent of
Y and Y")

Cheers,

André.


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