[OSM-talk] auto drawing island country borders (was Re: administrative boundaries and is_in)

[Karl Newman]

On Jan 10, 2008 10:31 AM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/01/2008, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> > - There's no reason why you can't stick an admin boundary on a
> > natural=coastline way.
>
> sounds good
>
> the idea of tracing over an existing boundary is not something that
> particularly appeals to me though, and as it's been done once, does it
> need to be done again:
>
> are there any tools for automating this? for aus, it would be great
> for instance to define a bounding box, containing the whole country,
> then run some simple commend to 'double up' the coastline ways, to
> create the country border
>

Don't duplicate the way. Just add the boundary tag to it.

Karl
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