Thank you Emilie.
When you talk of adding a commune, do you mean adding (vectorising) the boundary? It looks as though you have access to a lot more detailed information on boundaries in France than we have in the UK. The UK administrative boundaries on OSM have to be plotted from old maps that are now out of copyright. From: Emilie Laffray [mailto:emilie.laff...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 August 2009 17:16 To: peter.r...@aligre.co.uk; talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Estimating coverage 2009/8/4 Peter Reed <peter.r...@aligre.co.uk> Meanwhile, there is a nice map on the French Openstreetmap page showing coverage of French Communes http://files.meurisse.org/osm/2009/communes-20090801.png I can read French a little, and I have tried to make out the background from the Talk FR pages. See "Avancement des communes" in http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-fr/2009-April/thread.html As far as I can see, this map is plotting the extent to which boundaries have been plotted at the level of a French Commune (i.e- local government boundaries, not roads). My French really isn't up to asking more in the TALK-FR lists, so I'd be interested in any more information from the UK. Can anyone help? What would like to know? The thread you are pointing is updated monthly with new statistics. The boundaries that we have is based from the Cadastre which is a database that is owned by the tax office. We cannot incorporate data directly, but we were given authorization to trace from it. It is giving us access to name of streets, municipal boundaries, and buildings. The data is not yet completely vectorized, and adding a new commune is not that easy even if we have programs to help. We know how much work is done because we also have access to administrative information from the INSEE. It is possible then to check which commune has been properly added against the list of the INSEE. It is not perfect but it works globally well. Emilie Laffray
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