Re: [OSM-talk-be] Neighbourhoods in Ghent mapped as a point

I thought about this idea some more, and I'm not sure it's a good idea to use ALL the polygons. Municipality governments tend to have several competing "wijk" concepts, that usually are not official (ask me how I know). Their names might coincide with what citizens think of when they say Brugse

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Neighbourhoods in Ghent mapped as a point

Hi Pieter, It might take a bit more work to join the boundaries of the neighbourhoods with the existing boundaries of the city and the city sections. If the open data of the city of Ghent should diverge from what is already in OSM, it should be decided upon which dataset has the truth, which

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Neighbourhoods in Ghent mapped as a point

Yes the node approach is only done when the boundaries are unknown (and so this is an approximation) but in this case, as we have the boundaries as open data, we could add them indeed. You can see it in the wiki page too . Thus, creating a polygon