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

[Sander Deryckere]

It's all a matter of how much work you want to put in it.

A few years ago, I tried to draw most of the part-municipality boundaries
in West-Flanders, and succeeded pretty well in it. However, that was still
in the time of Yahoo imagery, so many features (like streams) weren't
visible, which means that many boundaries are shifted a few meters from
their actual location.

Here's a map that enables you to see to what level boundaries are mapped:
http://www.itoworld.com/map/2?lon=4.67594&lat=50.88177&zoom=9

In short, I used out-of-copyright Popp maps from the royal library. Then I
georeferenced them manually using the JOSM background image plugin. After
referencing them, I could draw the boundaries as they were in the 19th
century. Most boundaries didn't change since that time, so you can do a
pretty good job. But you do need to search some information on certain
boundaries to see which areas were exchanged in the past.

So if you want to invest a few hours, you can certainly draw some nice
boundaries.

Regards,
Sander



2015-02-24 16:22 GMT+01:00 Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com>:

>
> 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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