[OSM-talk] Using osmosis with --bounding-polygon

[David Paleino]

Simone Cortesi wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:47, David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to create small dumps following some administrative borders.
>> For example, starting from the Italy planet, I'd like to create dumps of
>> regions and provinces.
>>
>> Here's what I did:
>>
>> [..]
> 
> have a look here as well: http://wmaz.math.uni-wuppertal.de/olbricht/osm/

Great, thanks, will have a look!

>> With completeWays=yes, I'm getting _some_ ways, i.e. those crossing the
>> borders of the polygon, plus some others inside (connected to the former
>> ones). But I'm not getting (almost) any way starting and ending within
>> the polygon, nor any node/building/anything else. I'm also getting a
>> small adjacent administrative border, but this would be a minor issue at
>> the current state.
>>
>> Any help would be much apreciated :)
> 
> Experiment also with clipIncompleteEntities=true

Thank you, but trying it (and without completeWays), the border is really 
incomplete. I guess I must have mistaken something during the creation of 
the polygon file.

> if you add it then the task will modify ways to include nodes inside
> the bbox. With this the ways will then stop at the last available
> node.

AFAIU, that flag will just drop everything outside the given polygon/bbox.

Grazie,
David

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