Gerard Vanderveken wrote: > Level 10 could be used for hamlets, these are small local communities, > often some residential landuse around a little church or chapel. > They have always been part of a muncipality or village. eg Terlanen in > Overijse (boundary not yet mapped or defined) > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=4.5929214859&minlat=50.7602102661&maxl > on=4.61292196274&maxlat=50.7802140808 But for some, it will not be evident > to know the borders (Atlas?) and mosttimes it will stay by only be mapped > as place > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/473147300 > > I guess you could use this level 10 also for districts (as eg in > Antwerp), or should we use 11, for not conflicting with hamlets?
Districts in Antwerp are just a special kind of deelgemeenten/sections (the "villages" you speak of). It basically means that we get to elect a district counsel as well when there are city counsel elections, and so districts have a little bit of power as well, whereas deelgemeenten/sections have no own governing body. But districts and deelgemeenten/sections have to stay at the same level (9), because districts are deelgemeenten. The level 10 as said in an earlier message could be used to define "neighbourhoods", and in Antwerp these are more or less well defined, take for example the district of Antwerp in the city of Antwerp (check the "wijken" table at http://district.antwerpen.be/ ), where each neighbourhood has a street list. Drawing boundaries from those may be still a bit of a challenge though, and I'm not sure if we want to have them at all. Furthermore, I have no idea how or even if other municipalities handle neighbourhoods. > For clarity, the table of muncipalities should be extended with a column > to indicate the muncipality of the village (level 9) > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Belgium/Boundaries#Municipal > ities_and_deelgemeentes I don't know what you mean? The darker gray lines in the table are the municipalities, the lighter gray ones are the deelgemeenten/sections of the municipality above it. But the table is horribly out of date since a few guys started to draw all municipality boundaries in Flanders. Greetings Ben _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
