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

[Marcus Wolschon]

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Jon Burgess schrieb:
> 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.


Thank you,

however I am looking for a consensus for a standard-rule to document on
the wiki and implement in the OsmNavigation -library that Traveling-
Salesman uses for routing. It cannot parse shape-files (because osmosis
 can't) and I would rather use the data already provided in the existing
map. Political borders change over the years and the rule should only be
defined ones for all routers that are to be extended to use OSM-data
in addition to their existing map-formats.

Marcus
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