Robin Paulson wrote: > On 11/01/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - There's no reason why you can't stick an admin boundary on a >> natural=coastline way. >> > > sounds good > > the idea of tracing over an existing boundary is not something that > particularly appeals to me though, and as it's been done once, does it > need to be done again: > > are there any tools for automating this? for aus, it would be great > for instance to define a bounding box, containing the whole country, > then run some simple commend to 'double up' the coastline ways, to > create the country border > > Coastlines typically do not represent maritime borders of countries / administrative areas. And since they are established by various different means (international conventions, agreements, laws) and are often subject of disputes, they cannot be automatically generated.
Check these links: http://www.eurosion.org/database/maritime.html http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound/index.php Igor _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
