Tx Sander, I was looking for this type of background information as well. I have some suspicion that some boundaries were off , it floats to the surface when mapping housnumbers (and checking if the postal codes match the real one).
I will be less reluctant to change them now. Especially the comment about following a stream is what I noticed lately that some border look like they follow the shape of the stream but are a bit offset. @Marc : Indeed, that could be the Basecamp he was refering to. Glenn On 24-02-15 16:44, Sander Deryckere wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
