[OSM-talk] Countries borders

[Richard Weait]

2011/8/21 Aurélien FILEZ <kinju59 at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I would like to create a table with polygons that delimit all countries
> borders.
> But I can't import the planet.osm file because I don't have the right
> computer to make this.
> The goal is to know in which country a point is by using St_Contains(country
> polygon, myPoint) when the tag "addr:country" is not present.
> Because my set of data gets three different countries but I don't have all
> of these countries, so I cannot calculate borders without all data.

Dear Kin,

You can work with the smaller "extract" files of the countries that
interest you by combining the extracts.

http://weait.com/content/combine-openstreetmap-extracts

Best regards,
Richard