[Talk-us] understanding administrative boundary relations

[Ray Kiddy]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2015 07:06:33 +0200
Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 3:56 AM, Ray Kiddy <ray at ganymede.org> wrote:
> 
> > It has occurred to me that there will probably need to be a
> > "boundary watcher" tool, which can let an interested group know
> > about it when a boundary gets broken in some way. And I have
> > started playing with the python libraries for accessing OSM data
> > with this in mind.
> >
> 
> There is a German team that does this. They maintain the website
> https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/boundaries/ from which you can
> download all administrative boundaries in a number of formats.
> They also have a website with all missing (or broken) administrative
> boundaries:
> https://osm.wno-edv-service.de/index.php/projekte/internationale-administrative-grenzen/missing-boundaries
>  (in German)
> 
> regards

Others had mentioned the site to me. When I was looking at it, things
did not make so much sense, but I can see it now.

Strangely, I am finding that some of the cities in California _are_ in
the system, but as ways and not as relations. This seems odd, but we
will see.

And, actually, it looks as though the missing-boundaries pages are in
both German and English. So that will help. Other parts are still in
German, but I can deal.

I will check with them about some of this.

thanx - ray