[OSM-talk] Contour of country

[Frank Mohr]

Oliver White wrote:
> While you're waiting for someone more experienced to answer, I'll post a 
> couple of links:
> 
> 
> While openstreetmap isn't that good at borders and coastlines (because we 
> can't cycle along them with our GPS receivers), 

we could try to find borderstones and mark them .. but this would result
in cross-country hiking

> there are a couple of
> public-domain sources which might help you:
>
> Borders
> http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/Extras/boundaries_i.gz

for Europe, there are 2 datasets with detailed Administrative
Regions/Boundaries available, but the licence is unclear:

http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/summary.php?dataid=GNV158&category=human_related&dataurl=http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/download/gnv158.zip&browsen=http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/download/gnv158.gif#preview
http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/summary.php?dataid=GNV159&category=human_related&dataurl=http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/download/gnv159.zip&browsen=http://www.grid.unep.ch/data/download/gnv159.gif#preview

frank

		
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