On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> I'm looking for an *outline* map of North America showing national, >> state, and provincial boundaries for U.S. and Canada. >> >> My particular use is assisting someone else to plot some bird migration >> data. I can see the same outline having use for geography lessons from >> primary school thru college. >> > > I now know how to describe what I'm looking for. > > I need the 56 ways (AKA areas) that describe the "Lower 48" {Continental > U.S. less Alaska} and the 8 Canadian Provinces which border the U.S. > > What I still don't know: > 1. How to retrieve that set of data? > 2. How to render the data in an image suitable for OFFLINE use? > > TIA
Best option fo rthe "casual renderer" would be to download just those ways (admin borders) from the DB, then render on the desktop: 1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmxapi is your friend and you need something like this: http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][admin_level=2][bbox=left,bottom,right,top] (left,bottom,right,top should be the boundingbox for north america) 2. get kosmos: http://igorbrejc.net/kosmos 3. render. -S _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
