[OSM-talk-be] city names - bug in OFM?

[Marc Gemis]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be> wrote:

> Basecamp is a simple albeit very powerful project managements software
> from former 37Signals company written by the inventor of Ruby on Rails.
>
> https://basecamp.com/
>

It is also the name of the software that Garmin makes to manage maps on a
computer [1]
I assume the original poster was refetring to this software




Alain,


as André pointed out, in order to decide that a street is within a city,
village, hamlet, country, etc. we need to map the boundaries.
Unfortunately, that is very hard to do. You do not see lines on the grounds
where the boundary is located (except for a few walls between some
countries).
We would immediately solve this problem when we would have access to those
boundaries, e.g. when the government or IGN would put them in the public
domain.

On the other hand, many governments only work with villages, so when even
on official websites it is very hard to find a "deelgemeente".
The official geloket website for Flanders, will not allow you to search for
Steenweg op Waarloos, Reet. You have to know it is in Rumst.

So at the moment we are unable to solve your problem.I fear the only
solution is to spend a few hundred euros on a Garmin map if your really
need this feature.

regards

m



[1] http://www.garmin.com/en-US/shop/downloads/basecamp
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