There are big municipality fusions planned, going into effect on 1/1/2025. You can get an idea of all the things we have to do by looking at the project page for the previous fusions. There’s a page for the new fusions as well. Let’s use that page to define the steps & keep track of status. Let’s use this thread to discuss the topic.
The biggest job is updating the address and streetnames. Over 300 streets will change names, and thousands of addresses will be affected, often including up to the house number level.
I would like to split the job in two parts:
- simple things we can automate
- online spreadsheets to keep track of the harder tasks
I’ve started with the bulk work: preparing the streetname changes. Last time, we used this tagging for the preparation phase:
name=Original Name
proposed:name=New Name
fixme:name=WikiProject_Belgium/Municipality_Fusions/2025
If we get that ready by December 31st, we can do a very simple edit on new years eve where we filter all the objects with the fixme:name and change their name to old_name and their proposed:name to name
Because it’s quite a lot of streets, and there is relatively little that can go wrong, I made and tested a script that does the following steps:
- download the staging files (real data but not finalized yet)
- only keep the old streets that change into a single new street
- create an overpass query to download all the streets of a single municipality, export to Level0 and save as a text file (manual)
- load that text file and add the extra tags
- save back to Level0 and apply the change there
Let me know if you see any issues in the logic!
I would suggest to also script the update of address, but only where all the housenumbers of a street remain the same.
Then finally, we can make a list of all streets where manual intervention is needed and share the workload on those. It will be easier to wait until after 1/1/2025, because then the GRB background and LARA will show the new situation.
We can also use your help listing all the things that need to happen (e.g. update the ref:INS codes, update province boundaries near Antwerp, …) and take on some of those tasks as well!