[OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries

[Paul Fox]

thanks dodi -- as you can probably guess, i'm interested in creating a
large scale basemap for RoadMap.

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

from the first link you referenced, it looks like i'd also want to
add "admin_level=2" to get just national boundaries. 

 > 
 > it should by something like
 > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[boundary=administrative][bbox=...]

can i add two filters to a url like that?  or do i need to do the
rest of the filtering with post-processing?

paul

 > ----- 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.
 > >

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 29.5 degrees)