Randy, I just want to point out that there is an existing and well established OSM-based service that already supplies worldwide boundaries in a number of formats https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ .
Further the operator runs daily quality checks on changes in the boundaries. Simon Am 11.06.2015 um 14:54 schrieb Randy Meech: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Randy Meech <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Clifford Snow > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Seattle has very defined neighborhoods and even > sub-neighborhoods. The prior discussions kept us from adding the > boundaries. Maybe it is time to reconsider. The Mapzen effort to > produce a boundaries overlay is a promising solution to the > problem, but I haven't heard anything from Mapzen for a while. > > > We've changed course to publish existing OSM boundaries in different > formats, similar to the metro extracts [2], although this is not > live yet. The theory is that if we make the data more accessible to > people for visualization, they'll improve it. > > > Just an update on this, last weekend we launched "Borders," which is > similar to Metro Extracts, but just publishes GeoJSON files of all the > admin levels for every country from OSM. > > We hope that making this data more visible & accessible will lead to its > improvement. > > Data: https://mapzen.com/data/borders/ > Blog: https://mapzen.com/blog/total-perspective-vortex > Code: > - https://github.com/pelias/fences-slicer > - https://github.com/pelias/fences-cli > - https://github.com/pelias/fences-builder > > Additionally, Nathaniel Kelso of Natural Earth and Quattroshapes will be > starting at Mapzen on Monday (yay). Among many other things, we want to > focus on this area both within OSM and in other data projects. If anyone > is interested in helping, drop us a line. > > -Randy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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