[OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries

[Paul Fox]

can someone offer tips on how i might query osm or osmxapi for
country and continental boundaries, only?  i still want the data
to be limited by bounding box, but all i want to get within that
box are the ways that represent political borders, and, if
possible, ocean shorelines.

is this easy?

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 28.6 degrees)