On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:10:17 +0200, Julien Fastré wrote:
What are "towns" and "suburbs" in Belgium ?
In Liège, as far as I know, old communes are now the name of some
"quartiers" (i do not know the word in english). If I would map them,
I would use the disctrict/deelgemeentes/section level... But maybe I
am wrong...
Looking a bit further, it could be that in Belgium towns are synonymous
with deelgemeentes. At least when I look at
<http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_gemeenten_in_het_Vlaams_Gewest>.
This would suggest that before the communal reshufflings in 1960-1970,
a gemeente/commune would only consist of one town. Is that true?
That's a bit different from the Netherlands where there were (also in
the past) almost always more than one town in a gemeente.
And then the info in the belgian page (which I have also put on the
global page) would be complete.
Maarten
2011/6/8 Maarten Deen
On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 11:22:28 +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Maarten Deen wrote:
Don't have much time to reply, so a short one:
Always look at the country specific page to get the answers.
The
international
page is just there for some "guiding", but the countries
have to make
their
own rules. As is the case for Belgium.
country: level 2
regions: level 4
communities: level 5
provinces: level 6
arrondissements: level 7
municipalities: level 8
district/deelgemeentes/sections: level 9
Then why is this information not on the international page?
There is
absolutely no reason to have conflicting information on a
wiki.
In this list I am missing single towns. A municipality
consists of multiple
towns. Should it not be: municipality:8, town:9,
district/deelgemeentes/sections:10?
I assume 10 can be used for sububurbs/wijken too? (does
Belgium have that
concept like the Netherlands?)
'Deelgemeente' in Belgium is a different concept than in the
Netherlands. They are former municipalities, which in the 1960s
or
1970s have fused into larger municipalities. Thus, a
deelgemeente/district/section is more like a town than like a
wijk.
Ok, I've also looked at wikipedia, to me it seems that from low
admin_level to high it should be:
- Municipality (Gemeente/Commune)
- Deelgemeente/district
- Town
- Suburb (Wijk)
That would then suggest that everything from region down should be
dropped one admin_level:
country: level 2
regions: level 3
communities: level 4
provinces: level 5
arrondissements: level 6
municipalities: level 7
district/deelgemeentes/sections: level 8
town: level 9
suburb: level 10
Or start using admin_level=11.
Maarten
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