[OSM-dev] country borders

[Jon Burgess]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 18:53 +0000, Jon Burgess wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:23 -0800, Mikel Maron wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Country borders are only visible in the mapnik rendering a zoom 1-4. Any reason they couldn't be visible at lower zoom levels?
> > 
> > Mikel
> > 
> 
> They are derived from vmap0 data and I believe the quality is not good
> enough to use at higher zooms. The OSM border data used at the higher
> zooms is getting added pretty rapidly. 
> 
> Hopefully we'll be able to get rid of the vmap0 shapefiles and use only
> the OSM derived data in the future.
> 

Now that I look again it seems we have little or no country border data
rendered on zoom 7+. I think it probably is due to the lack of OSM data
for country borders. It is not something you can easily record with a
GPS though so we probably need to find and import it from a suitable
source.

	Jon