WikiProject Belgium/Conventions/Places
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Tags
Place tags
- All municipalities get a place=city, place=town or place=village tag according to their population:
- city: > 100.000
- town: 10.000 - 100.000
- village: < 10.000
- All deelgemeentes that don't have the same name as the municipality they belong to get a place=town or place=village tag according to their population:
- town: > 10.000
- village: < 10.000
- Smaller villages or quarters that don't have the same name as the deelgemeente or municipality they belong to get a place=hamlet tag.
Examples
- the municipality of Antwerp has almost 500.000 inhabitants so is place=city. Antwerp is also the name of a deelgemeente so it doesn't get another place node for that. The district Wilrijk in Antwerp has almost 40.000 inhabitants so becomes place=town.
- the municipality of Heuvelland has just over 8.000 inhabitants so is place=village. Each deelgemeente (Dranouter, Kemmel, Loker, etc.) get a place=village tag as well.
- the municipality of Langemark-Poelkappelle has almost 8.000 inhabitants so is place=village. Each of the deelgemeentes (Langemark, Poelkapelle, Bikschote) gets a place=village tag. Langemark consists of three settlements: Langemark, Madonna and Sint-Juliaan. The latter two get a place=hamlet tag.
Lists of municipalities in Belgium
A list of municipalities (and wheter they are cities or not) can be found here:
- West-Vlaanderen
- Oost-Vlaanderen
- Antwerpen
- Limburg
- Liège
- Luxembourg
- Namur
- Hainaut (in dutch, French version doesn't contain useful info on this at this moment)
- Vlaams-Brabant
- Brabant_wallon
Other tags
Other tags that can be included on place nodes.
- population=*
- is_in=*
- name=*
- postal_code=*
Bilingual Places
As we live in a country with multiple languages some places have names in those multiple languages. But how should those names be represented in OSM?
When there is no doubt about the language spoken in a specific place, the name of that specific language should be used in the name tag.
Translated place-names can be stored in the name:lg tag, where lg is nl, fr, en, ...
Examples:
Antwerpen/Anvers -> place in Flanders -> name=Antwerpen; name:fr=Anvers
Liège/Luik -> place in Wallonia -> name=Liège; name:nl=Luik
Places in the "Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest / Région de Bruxelles-Capitale" are bilingual places. The name tag can be used to store both the Dutch and French place-name.
The name:lg tag can be used to store the place-name in that specific language.
Examples:
Brussel/Bruxelles -> name=Brussel - Bruxelles; name:nl=Brussel; name:fr=Bruxelles
There is not (yet) a rule which defines which language should be placed first, please don't start an edit war!
This is a complete list of all places in the "Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest / Région de Bruxelles-Capitale" which will have both names in the place tag:
- Anderlecht
- Brussel - Bruxelles
- Elsene - Ixelles
- Etterbeek
- Evere
- Ganshoren
- Jette
- Koekelberg
- Oudergem - Auderghem
- Schaarbeek - Schaerbeek
- Sint-Agatha-Berchem - Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
- Sint-Gillis - Saint-Gilles
- Sint-Jans-Molenbeek - Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
- Sint-Joost-ten-Node - Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
- Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe - Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
- Sint-Pieters-Woluwe - Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
- Ukkel - Uccle
- Vorst - Forest
- Watermaal-Bosvoorde - Watermael-Boitsfort
Source: http://www.statbel.fgov.be
Places with language facilities just have the official language. Only German in the East Cantons, and only Dutch or French in the places around the linguistic border. Use lang:nl, lang:de or lang:fr for the other name (this can be done for any place, regardless of language facilities).
OSM is not a battlefield. If you don't like how the situation is, fight for your beliefs through your political party, not on OSM.
