[OSM-talk] Highway tagging in general around the world

[Cameron Patrick]

Brent Easton wrote:

> Is this realistically going to happen in my lifetime? Do we have the
> entire world's country boundaries recorded to the required level of
> detail to be able to efficiently calculate which country any
> particular segment is in? Is it going to be able to cope with complex
> borders wrapping around sections of other countries?

When I get some time for more renderer hacking (next week?), I'd be
happy to have a shot at writing per-region hacks for mapnik, hardcoding
in boundaries to osm2pgsql.  Are such patches likely to be accepted?

In the case of Australia, the boundaries only need to be a very vague
polygon.  For some other countries, this'd be harder, of course.

Cameron