For those wanting to de-merge other way information from admin boundaries here's a cheat sheet, firstly setup and test your filter settings, for this purpose I setup 2 filters, one to disable or hide waterways and coastlines even if they are admin boundaries as I see these as harmless compared to other sorts of ways. I also setup a filter to only show admin boundaries with railway or highway tags, as these are the most common that need to be fixed:
filter 1: waterway=* | natural=coastline | natural=land filter 2: boundary=administrative -(highway=* | railway=*) type:way You need filters in that order, I also selected the hide option so all the irrelevant boundaries just don't show. Next you can use the XAPI interface to download all the admin boundaries within a given bounding box by opening a location from within JOSM: http://xapi.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way%5Bboundary=administrative%5D%5Bbbox=151.72119139999998,-28.4638623,153.62731929999998,-26.6670958%5D The bbox above is for south east queensland and will download about 33M of OSM data as a result, but the same thing could be used for anywhere. With the filtering in place there should be only a few admin boundaries still being displayed, all you need to do then is copy and paste or duplicate the ways, slightly offset the boundaries and you're done. The XAPI interface is delayed by 5 minutes or so behind the main API server, so it can be worth selecting any/all ways and update them from the main API before editing. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
