[Talk-us] Fwd: shape files of US states and great lakes

[Ian Dees]

Would it make sense to add lakes and political boundaries (perhaps only
country and state/province) to the lower zoom levels of mapnik rendering?

It seems silly (and not representative of our data set) to use an external
shapefile when we've got the data in there.

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:52 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:

> my goal is to make this
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.8&lon=-95.9&zoom=4
>
> look something like this
>
> http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=39.463135&lon=-93.818625&zoom=5
>
>
> On 8 Jul 2008, at 14:43, Adam Schreiber wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8 Jul 2008, at 14:37, Adam Schreiber wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:30 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> >>>>> I've had a chat with jon who runs the tile server and an interim
> >>>>> solution to getting the great lakes and US/CA state borders on the
> >>>>> map is if there are Free shapefile(s) somewhere with said stuff on
> >>>>> it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can anyone help?
> >>>
> >>> The US state borders are all in already.  I don't know a source for
> >>> the CA province borders though.
> >>
> >> the problem as I understand it is that extracting them and rendering
> >> them will take a while, and this is a stop gap
> >
> > I'm not sure it's clear what your goal in this respect is.  The
> > borders are already rendered by tiles at home if not by mapnik.
> >
>
> Best
>
> Steve
>
>
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