Overpass is the answer to your question. You can use overpass to extract the boundary polygons, and then other software to convert it to a rendered map.
See this example query: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/8rD With that query, you can simply extract all municipalities (mapped with admin_level=8) in the province West-Vlaanderen. A smaller area makes it easier to test. To load Belgium, you should just switch the name to "Belgium", and the admin_level to 2 (for national boundaries). It's possible that Belgium becomes too heavy for overpass-turbo, in that case, you can go via Overpass API directly (see http://www.overpass-api.de/query_form.html ), which doesn't render the received data, but just gives you the data as text. Also note that the output format is defined to be JSON, if you prefer other formats, there are more choices: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL#Output_Format_.28out.29 Is that enough for the municipalities? Or do you also want more info on rendering the maps? For the zip codes, well, those aren't completely mapped yet. Some municipalities have multiple zip codes, and it's very hard to find correct boundaries for those. Regards, Sander 2015-03-28 13:36 GMT+01:00 Alexander Mikhailian <mikhail...@mova.org>: > Hello, > > I have an idea for a language study project in Belgium and it would > really help if there were a map of Belgian municipalities with the names > of municipalities or zip codes linked to polygones. I found [1] but it > has only ids of the form "path80-8-8". which is not very helpful. > > Could you by any chance give me hint as to where I can find such a map? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Alexander Mikhailian > > [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belgium_administrative.svg > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be >
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