[Osmf-talk] Worldwide electoral boundaries

[Jaak Laineste]

Yes, OSM people may know this.

OSM itself is not really the best source for such data - it may happen to have the boundary geometries for some countries, but you never know if they are complete, up-to-date, geometrically valid, has anyone accidentally broken something few days ago etc. You may try to extract the current data, but very probably you need to do a lot of checkups and unification to have really globally coherent view. Someone may have done all this already though.

Similar frequently asked question is about administrative boundaries in global scale.

Jaak


> On 23 Aug 2018, at 17:43, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 
> MySociety is looking for world-wide electoral area boundaries. I imagine OSM people might well have access to this info from all sorts of places.
> 
> https://www.mysociety.org/2018/08/07/help-us-find-the-worlds-electoral-boundaries/ <https://www.mysociety.org/2018/08/07/help-us-find-the-worlds-electoral-boundaries/>
> 
> David
> 
> (In anticipation of the usual hostile response from posting even the most innocuous message to a OSM email list, I am just passing on the message from a MySociety mailing list, I have no involvement with them)
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