On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 20:27, Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Benoit Leseul wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:18, Luc Van den Troost <luc.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > [...]
>> > Comunities are made up of people, not of area. So putting
>> > communitie-borders on the map is kind of insane.
>>
>> In terms of boundaries, the belgian constitution defines four
>> linguistic areas ("régions linguistiques"/"taalgebieden") but not
>> communities as geographical entities.
>>
>> See Art. 4 :
>> http://www.senate.be/doc/const_nl.html#t1
>> http://www.senate.be/doc/const_fr.html#t1
>> http://www.senate.be/deutsch/const_de.html#t1
>>
>> They are all contained into regional boundaries and are identical to
>> the regions except for the "deutsche Sprachgebiet".
>>
>> I think that's what should be mapped at that level (be it 4 or 5) and
>> it would solve the overlap problem.
>
> The idea was to map the communities according to those language areas. If
> everyone agrees to map these language areas instead of communities, fine by
> me, but I just thought it would be odd to see something like "région bilingue
> de Bruxelles-Capitale - tweetalige gebied Brussel-Hoofdstad" appear on the
> map,Sure it's not pretty, but possibly less odd than overlapping areas and bigger sublevels than their upper counterparts. Maybe the name could be reduced to something like "Région de Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussel-Hoofdstad" since the bilingual aspect can be implied by the double name. > and because it then looks like the maps you can find on > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communities,_regions_and_language_areas_of_Belgium > which are the maps everyone learns it with at school as well. That's probably an oversimplification, the maps are showing competence areas, not areas per se. Also, I don't know that any OSM renderer shows overlapping areas with a hatched texture. But yeah, "It's complicated" and I'm not sure everyone would agree one way or another. It will look strange and complex in both cases, but so is reality :) -- Benoit _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
