[HOT] Admin boundaries level 1, CAR - Lobaye missing in OSM

Michael Krämer ohrosm at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 20:32:34 UTC 2014


Am 08.03.2014 21:18, schrieb Pierre Béland:
> The OCHA COD FOD present boundaries that the Bangui office has worked
> on. See
> https://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/search/field_country_region/central-african-republic/field_category/admin-level-1-boundaries-201

Thank you Pierre, this answers my question: The borders in Maplibrary 
are not the current ones.

> I can help to import the boundaries if we can find data with the
> appropriate license.

Well, NaturalEarth is public domain 
(http://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/) so we could use 
the data. Importing is not a problem, and I already have the missing 
segment of the border converted into an osm file.

The only disadvantage of the NaturalEarth is the rather poor accuracy. 
The OCHA COD FOD data shows more detail. A quick check showed 
differences of more than 1 km.

So I would rather wait at least until tomorrow, if we can identify some 
better source than NaturalEarth.

Michael



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