[OSM-talk] osmxapi/bbox question

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 13:47:03 BST 2008


You can have any shaped bbox you like as long as it is a rectangle ;)

Can anyone point me to a good algorithm for selecting points within an
arbitrary polygon?

80n

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Johan Huysmans <johan.huysmans at inuits.be>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I' experimenting with osmxapi to get a list of all places in Belgium.
> Getting a list of all places is no problem, but the list is a bit too
> large ;)
>
> Can I specify that I only want the places in Belgium? Can this be done
> with bbox?
>
> Is there a known mapping that give you the exact bbox for each country?
>
> Thx, Johan Huysmans
>
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