[OSM-talk] extracting world political boundaries

[Paul Fox]

dodi wrote:
 > From: "Paul Fox" <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
 > 
 > > can i add two filters to a url like that?  or do i need to do the
 > > rest of the filtering with post-processing?
 > 
 > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmxapi#Limitations ->
 > Currently each request is limited to one tag predicate and one bbox 
 > predicate. In the future it is hoped that more sophisticated conditions will 
 > be implemented.

oops.  i should have read more thoroughly.  thanks.

 > ..so you need some post-processing but can try
 > http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.5/way[admin_level=2][bbox=...]
 > 
 > as I assume, admin_level tag is used exclusively with 
 > boundary=administrative

oh, of course -- good idea.  thanks.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 30.2 degrees)