based on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:boundary and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi
it should by something like http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][bbox=...] or wget http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][bbox=...] - O boundary.osm Dodi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:57 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries > can someone offer tips on how i might query osm or osmxapi for > country and continental boundaries, only? i still want the data > to be limited by bounding box, but all i want to get within that > box are the ways that represent political borders, and, if > possible, ocean shorelines. > > is this easy? > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 28.6 > degrees) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
