[OSM-dev] Extracting polygons from planet.osm - take 2

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Is that what you had in mind, or were you thinking about accessing  
> other
> websites to obtain polygons?

I thought that there may be web sites where you can simply give them  
a country code and get usable border polygons back. But maybe the  
self-made version is better as it will allow you to extract other  
things than countries as well. We can always build a converter that  
imports polygons from other sources into our own repository, and  
borders don't change that often.

> Anyone else for or against?  How do I get an SVN account?

It's on the wiki ;-)

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Accounts

Until you have your own account, feel free to e-mail me with files  
and desired directory structure and I'll put stuff into SVN for you.

Bye
Frederik

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