[OSM-dev] About the geographic data in a .osm file

[Toby Murray]

First of all, did you notice that the cloudmade extracts are over a year
old? I would suggest looking at geofabrik for up to date extracts:
http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html

As for your tiles quesion, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Are you asking
why there is any data outside of Delaware? Or why you are getting blank
tiles where you don't have any data?

The cloudmade extracts never were too accurate on the state borders. When I
first downloaded Kansas they were missing the north border by a couple of
miles and had extra on the south. So it doesn't surprise me that the
cloudmade extract has extra data in it.

As for tile generation, the tile rendering process doesn't care about where
you do/don't have data. It just renders the tiles you tell it to render. If
there happens to be no data in that area then the tile will be blank.

Toby



On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Vince Berubey <screams_3 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> I have downloaded "delaware.osm.bz2<http://downloads.cloudmade.com/americas/northern_america/united_states/delaware/delaware.osm.bz2>
>  "
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/americas/northern_america/united_states/delaware#downloads_breadcrumbs
>
> The boundary box I used when I generated my tiles from Generated_tyles.py
>  were a little bit bigger than the Delaware region.
>
> What I don't understand is why I was able to generate tiles that were in
> my boundary box, but outside the Delaware area.
>
> So, the .osm file does not exactly contain only the geographic data from
> the region that you have downladed?
>
> Please look at this file, the red marks are the Delaware borders. I have a
> lot of tiles generated outside of these borders:
>
> http://postimg.org/image/ogwbjz5ln/
>
> Thank you for any explanation about it.
>
> Best regards.
>
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