[OSM-dev] Obtaining a polyfile

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

steve brown wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble working out how to create a polyfile for 
> extracting a UK county. I've got a pbf file locally - how exactly do I 
> do this? I've tried using frederik ramm's osm2poly tool but that turns 
> everything into a polyfile. (and mostly ways I think).

Easiest way: Open JOSM, load OSM tiles in backgruond, do not load OSM 
data, draw one closed way around the county, save as .osm, run through 
osm2poly.

Bye
Frederik

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