[OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries

[Dodi]

based on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:boundary and 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi

it should by something like
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][bbox=...]
or
wget 
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][bbox=...] - 
O boundary.osm

Dodi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Fox" <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 2:57 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries


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