Hello everybody, > I could add it to my routing-software > in no time and make use of it for maxspeed and driving on the > left or the right side of the road (think "turnabout ahead, second > exit").
I'm sorry, at the moment the project is still rather a proof-of-concept. Currently, only 16 countries are correctly shaped, most of them in Europe and almost all without a coastline. A sound solution for the coastline might take one or two weeks. But for a large share of countries, there are simply still to much gaps in the boundary. I would expect that getting Europe to work will take about two weeks, the rest of the world ever longer. It would be a good idea to encourage other mappers in fixing the gaps but I haven't any idea yet how to do so. > I haven't tried it yet but had a brief look. > Is it possible to have the name of the country in the filename of > the ".border"-file? Done. The filenames will be equal to the tag with key "name" in the respective country node. > [...] it would be trivial to add an option to output > the border as a way in OSM-XML -format instead? This is a little bit more delicate. I have added a OSM-alike XML-syntax, I hope that it is useful. It consists of * Ways where any way is closed. These ways are entire components instead of being part of the OSM database. * The nodes aren't added as explicit elements, but each <nd>-element carries lat(itude) and lon(gitude) of its respective node. I hope this would simplify parsing. * Countries may have holes (for an extreme example see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog or http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.44465&lon=4.94685&zoom=14 ). There doesn't seem to be any tag appropriate for tagging holes. So I have added a new tag with k="type" v="exclave" for those components which need to be cut out from other components. * Not all nodes used in the polygon do exist as nodes in the OSM database. For example, all nodes with a name "intersection-" are derived from intersections of ways without node. * The ways given here aren't ways from the OSM database. It happens quite frequently that a way is the border of more than two countries, for example because of a unmarked intersection with another way or just by passing a point where three countries meet. Cheers, Roland _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
