[HOT] Admin boundaries level 1, CAR - Lobaye missing in OSM
Michael Krämer
ohrosm at gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 17:53:38 UTC 2014
As I couldn't find any better data I've uploaded the missing border from
Natural Earth and adjusted the relations for the two affected prefectures.
Michael
2014-03-08 21:32 GMT+01:00 Michael Krämer <ohrosm at gmail.com>:
> 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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