[OSM-talk] Extract a polygon into a polygon filter file format

[Pieren]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Kirill Bestoujev <bestoujev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And Regarding the complexity - Russian border is 5 (or even more) times
> longer than French, but still we do not split it into pieces...
>

It's not a problem of distance or amount of nodes but a problem of
amount of 'ways members' . In France, the national boundary is the sum
of all (small) municipalities boundaries. Themselves are often split
because our neighboring countries have the bad habit to use different
limits for their municipalities ;-)
Boundary relation for Russia is currently about 600 ways members where
the boundary for France is about 2600 ways (excluding overseas
territories).

Pieren