Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Maarten Deen
Kenny Moens wrote: Hello guys, In the region where I live (Hulshout), some of the borders are recently mapped, but they don't follow the exact features which form the border. For example, in the area between Ramsel and Westmeerbeek the city border follows the Steenkensbeek which I recently

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
Hello Le dimanche 05 décembre 2010 à 10:02, Kenny Moens a écrit : In the region where I live (Hulshout), some of the borders are recently mapped, but they don't follow the exact features which form the border. For example, in the area between Ramsel and Westmeerbeek the city border follows the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Luc Van den Troost
A lot of municipality borders follow the course of rivers,... as they were when the borders were fixed. A lot of small rivers have been modernised for the first time during the 1840-1860 time. Curves have been removed, and so on... That was well after the fixing of the borders. So in a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Ben Laenen
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Kenny Moens street...@functor.be wrote: Hello guys, In the region where I live (Hulshout), some of the borders are recently mapped, but they don't follow the exact features which form the border. For example, in the area between Ramsel and Westmeerbeek the

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Ben Laenen
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Renaud MICHEL r.h.michel+...@gmail.com wrote: - If the border is legally bound to the stream, and should move with it in case its path change, then you should tag it on the same way (or share the nodes). - If it is actually on the same path than the stream,

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping of Boundary

2010-12-05 Thread Renaud MICHEL
On dimanche 05 décembre 2010 at 12:30, Ben Laenen wrote : Boundaries used to be bound to streams, roads etc, but not any more. Now they're all defined by sets of coordinates. If for example bad weather happens and the stream suddenly follows a different course, the boundary won't move with it.