> in some cases] That's exactly why my approach is to build unoffical polygons > around the sea part of the administrative entity including the islets. > > I have now done so for admin_level=8 in Hiiu, Saare and Pärnu maakond. > [I'll revert that if agreed here]
How does it look like on Mapnik, can you give permalink where you have defined it so? With counties I imagine how you can do arbitrary borders, dividing sea between municipalities could become already too distant from the reality. One way to look it would be that OSM database could (should) be usable as source (repository) of free GIS data, so if there is data for Estonian admin borders, then after exporting it to some GIS tool this should be similar to the original official admin borders, and not something which is significantly "hacked" for Mapnik rendering. In the other hand, in short term too ugly Mapnik image would be even larger issue. My idea was to try removing admin tagging (or just names?) from the small islets and let admin border geometries to be in their official place. If Narva city municipal border (and their jurisdiction) ends with riverbank, and there is some "federal land" before state/EU border then this should be like that in the map also. Similar thing with Tallinn and Aegna island (which is part of Tallinn, Central linnaosa); Naissaar is part of Viimsi vald, so it is quite a mixture there if you try to divide sea between them reasonably. I've seen that on some maps Võrtsjärv has been divided between counties, but in Maaamet latest data has admin borders on shoreline. Jaak _______________________________________________ Talk-ee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ee
