[OSM-talk] Extracting administrative division boundaries from OSM

[Paul Houle]

    Hi,  I'm trying to construct a 'spatial control' structure for the 
Earth that's entirely based on CC-BY and CC-BY-SA compatible data.

    Something I'm looking at right now is creating a complete set of 
country boundaries and second-level administrative divisions.  
(Third-level might be nice too,  but that might be asking a lot)

    I've got a fairly complete list of items with ISO 3166-2 country 
codes and I'd like to extract shapes for these.  I could get them out of 
Yahoo's WEO shapes but these really look bad.  I can see that these 
shapes are in OSM,  but I've got no idea how to get them out.  Can 
anybody point me to where to get started?