[Talk-ca] Canada boundary relation

[Nakor]

    Richard,

I am pretty surprised that there was no relation for Canada. I often 
pull the MI-ON border when I work and I am sure it was part of a Canada 
relation. The relation might have been deleted at some point.

    Thanks,

N.


On 2/15/2011 11:40 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It's a question we've all wanted to ask.  "How many Tim Hortons
> locations are in Canada, according to OpenStreetMap?"  But without a
> Canada polygon, we had to rely on deprecated is_in tags or subtracting
> US Timmys from total Timmys and hoping that would be close enough.
>
> Well, now we have a boundary relation for Canada, #1428125
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1428125
>
> And if you are running a minutely update, that relation has propagated
> so you can now ask your local PostGIS server how many Tim Hortons are
> in OSM in Canada, and you'll get the answer.  554.  SO we have a few
> more to map!
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
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