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

Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) openstreetmap at ostertag.name
Fri Nov 23 08:30:40 GMT 2007


> But seriously, if you want boundaries *now*, go to the CIA world
> databank, download the shapefiles and be happy. They're a little out
> of date but for most parts of the world the boundaries havn't changed
> much. Eventually the OSM data will get to the same level of accuracy,
> but we're not there yet...

Would the CIA data be compliant with our Data? In other words; could we import 
them into OSM(concerning the License)?

-
Joerg





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