This seems like the best way to go about this, thank you for providing and updating such an useful tool !
2017-01-16 23:35 GMT+01:00 Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org>: > Hi, > > this is just a small heads-up. The Geofabrik downloads (regional > .osm.pbf extracts for various continents, countries etc) will switch to > a different software stack later this month. We currently use > osm-history-splitter which is based on an older version of Osmium, and > will in the future use a new feature offered by the osmium command line > tool and the newest Osmium version instead. > > This will enable us to change the handling of relations in the extracts. > > Currently, relations are included in the extracts if one of their > members lies (partially) inside the area; but members of the relation > that lie fully outside the area are not considered. > > This has adverse effects when large multipolygons cross the border, for > example Lake Constance not be fully contained in any of the Germany, > Austria, or Switzerland extracts. > > In the future we will be able to include all members of multipolygon > relations that have at least one member (partially) inside the area. > This will only be done for multipolygons and not for other relations > (like boundaries or routes). Therefore, water bodies, forests etc. that > cross the boundary should in the future be fully contained in the extracts. > > This comes at a price of a slightly larger extract but the difference is > negligible. On the day we make the switch, all regional .osc files will > have a slight size bump becasue all the missing bits and pieces required > to complete the multipolygons will be contained in them. > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > dev@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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