[OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread Colin Smale
Hi, I am trying to extract national boundaries from OSM and it's proving more difficult than I anticipated. What I would like to end up with, is a collection of complex polygons (inner and outer rings including enclaves/exclaves), one for each country. I thought I should be able to do that

Re: [OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread Andy Deakin
Hi Colin, I went through exactly the same process some time ago, and eventually used a different source: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php It would be nice to be able to extract something very similar from osm. If you have any success, please share it. Andy On

Re: [OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: But France and Slovakia for example don't seem to have a single relation as a starting point. There is the one for France (land_area): http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/11980 It's a relation of relations

Re: [OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread Colin Smale
Pieren, you are right, it looks like I should be able to work with the data for France. Specific countries (with the top level relations) that are definitely giving challenges right now are: *Slovakia (#14296) *Luxembourg (#28711) *Czech Republic (#51684) *Switzerland

Re: [OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread Gary68
please have a look at boundaries.pl in the wiki. hope this helps. On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 11:05 +0200, Colin Smale wrote: Hi, I am trying to extract national boundaries from OSM and it's proving more difficult than I anticipated. What I would like to end up with, is a collection of

Re: [OSM-dev] Extracting national boundaries

2010-08-30 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/8/30 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Colin Smale colin.sm...@xs4all.nl wrote: But France and Slovakia for example don't seem to have a single relation as a starting point. There is the one for France (land_area):