[OSM-dev] Defining the area of a country / What country is a LatLon in.

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 19:12 +0000, Andy Allan wrote:
> I started a point-by-point reply to most of this, but here's a very
> short summary instead.
> 
> http://artem.dev.openstreetmap.org/files/world_boundaries.tar.bz2 is big
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi could be useful

The 5MB shapefile below is an extract from the world_boundaries.tar.bz2
and is probably perfectly adequate for your needs:

http://www.jburgess.uklinux.net/world_boundaries_m.tgz

It has 3808 closed polygons. The majority of these are tiny little
islands which you could probably drop if you wanted to make the
processing more efficient.

	Jon