On Sonntag 30 März 2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Him > > > A question to the person who's in charge of the extracts at > > http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/europe/ : > > > > is it possible to add an extra 10km wide strip outside the country > > borders? The borders data which is now used is apparently quite low > > resolution, so it cuts off some big pieces of the country right now... > > I'm trying to cut stuff exactly at the border, in case people want to > run statistics (how many miles of road in France, etc). If my border > polygons are wrong, I'm happy to convert them to .osm files for you and > ask you to fix them in JOSM (most of the border polygons I use are > directly from the DCW web site).
Could we include these Border poligons as areas into OSM-Main database or is the license not allowing it? > I was also planning to offer alternative downloads that have a country's > full bounding box instead of the exact borders. Would that be good for you? I think this would be a good idea for people driving/living near to a border like I do in the meantime. if I only include BadenWürtemberg into gpsdrive the Bodensee always looks a little strange ;-) -- Jörg (Germany, Tettnang) http://www.ostertag.name/ irc://irc.oftc.net/#osm Tel.: +49 89 420950304 Skype: JoergOstertag _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
