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@mclem mclem commented May 25, 2023

Add the part of municipality from Wallonia to the CSV output, as people usually give this information instead of the municipality name when they type their address (see openaddresses/openaddresses#5873).

The "postname" field available for Flanders/Brussels is not exactly the same as it is an aggregation of multiples names, e.g.:

101669.12,179169.21,50.92083,3.68139,205004,,67,44020,,,Gavere,9890,,Asper/Baaigem/Dikkelvenne/Gavere/Semmerzake/Vurste,69428,,,Nijverheidsstraat,BE-VLG,current

Here it would be useful to have a field which contains only "Dikkelvenne" as this is the name a person would give.

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Thanks, I'll have to look into it because the Python scripts aren't used anymore (all Java now)

Current situation is a bit suboptimal:

  • Walloon Region does provide the names of former municipalities (i.e "submunicipalities"), but not the names for postal codes
  • Flanders Region does not provide the names of former municipalities, it does provide postal names but as a concatenated string (so a postal code used in multiple locations will generate a somewhat unusable string with slashes)

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