I had a little foray into QGIS just now to see if I could do this. Starting from naturalearth boundaries data http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/ I used QGIS to do a buffer and simplify, saving back to shapefile. That then opens into JOSM quite nicely using the "OpenData" plugin. Saved to .osm it looks like this: http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.osm.zip (buffers looking good) I tried saving it to .poly using the 'poly' plugin http://harrywood.dev.openstreetmap.org/africaboundaries/africaboundariesbuffered.poly ...but that's all the polygons munged together. What's needed is separate files named by country
So almost there, but do we need to manually go through the country ways/relations one by one splitting them to layers in JOSM then saving them separate poly files? Probably wouldn't take that long actually, but a bit tedious Harry ________________________________ From: Severin MENARD <[email protected]> To: Dan S <[email protected]> Cc: Hrvoje Bogner <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 28 September 2013, 13:39 Subject: Re: [HOT] Fwd: Request to add Central African Republic among the available countries in OSMAND Thanks Dan I am just figuring out that Hrvoje actually needs boundaries with a + 1 km buffer what needs to be done with Geodal or within QGIS. Sincerely, Severin On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Dan S <[email protected]> wrote: Hi - > >This site provides countries as geojson, kml etc: >http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/areas/O02.html > >Dan > > >2013/9/28 Severin MENARD <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Hrvoye, >> >> Thank you very much for the proposition to add all the African countries >> once for all. I did not find the time to find poly files so far and actually >> I would like to ask the HOT community if someone knows such files already >> exist somewhere, rather than creating new ones from scratch. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Severin >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Hrvoje Bogner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Severin >>> >>> I received your mail while on vacation, when I got back there were a lot >>> of things to do at work and in private life so this mail slipped down in the >>> list. >>> At a quick glance some of the countries are already available through >>> application. >>> My plan is to get OSMAND to include ALL of the countries in the world. >>> Africa was the starting point because it had only few of them available. >>> I can add the missing ones as soon as i get some free time to create >>> appropriate boundary. >>> OSMAND team asked not to create to much overlap with countries so I use >>> max 1km offset from country border and simplify it as much as possible. >>> >>> If you want you can help and create *.poly files for missing countries. >>> >>> Regards >>> Hrvoje >>> >>> >>> >>> On 12.08.2013 00:57, Severin MENARD wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Hrvoje, >>>> >>>> Thank you very much for having added Mali, Chad and Burundi to the list >>>> of countries to download in OSMAND. >>>> Would it be possible to add a few African countries again? >>>> >>>> * Sudan, where Khartoum is currently hit by large floods >>>> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Sudan_floods) >>>> * Central African Republic where the situation, if not broadcasted is >>>> >>>> becoming totally dramatic. We have a request from MSF Spain (cced) >>>> that would make a great use of it in the field. The crisis in >>>> Central African Republic is not mediatised at all, but the >>>> population is facing some real issues, including hunger now (see >>>> this article >>>> >>>> <http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2013/07/09/la-penurie-alimentaire-menace-la-centrafrique_3445128_3212.html> >>>> >>>> from Le Monde that you can easily read with an online translation) >>>> * Togo, where we have an ongoing field mission, as part of the EOF >>>> project >>>> <http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/espace_osm_francophone_0> >>>> * Cameroon, where a very dynamic community is working >>>> * Malawi, where the mapping possibilities could rise soon >>>> >>>> >>>> Beyond this, it would be great if all the African countries could be >>>> added in the future. >>>> If ever we can help eg by providing the boundaries in any format, please >>>> just ask. >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> >>>> Severin >>>> >>>> >>>> Message: 3 >>>> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:09:09 +0100 >>>> From: hbogner <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Subject: Re: [HOT] Mali now available in Osmand, any more needed? >>>> Message-ID: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>>> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>>> >>>> Hi Severin >>>> >>>> Didn't had time to work on this, bunch of deadlines at work so had to >>>> put aside everything else. Will try to do it in next few days. >>>> Sorry >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Hrvoje >>>> >>>> On 03/13/2013 11:46 PM, Severin MENARD wrote: >>>> > Dear Hrvoje, >>>> > >>>> > Thanks for the proposition to create new offline data downloads >>>> for >>>> > OsmAnd. I would suggest to also add Kenya, Chad and Burundi, as we >>>> > deployed there through the DG ECHO funded Eurosha project >>>> > (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/eurosha_0) and trained a >>>> lot of >>>> > organizations of different kinds (local authorities, gov, UN, >>>> Ngos, >>>> > academics, OS community, civil society...) on OSM. The people >>>> having a >>>> > smartphone there would really like to have the OsmAnd data for >>>> their >>>> > country that I could show them on my device, but 343 Mo for all >>>> Africa >>>> > is quite huge for them to download considering the connection >>>> there is >>>> > often slow. Tomorrow is even a large feedbackl presentation in >>>> front of >>>> > 100-200 stakeholders here in N'Djamena, then 2 days of open source >>>> > softs, and a lot of techy people would really like have OSM data >>>> on >>>> > their Android smartphone. >>>> > >>>> > Sincerely, >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Severin >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
