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

[Kirill Bestoujev]

Ok, convinced.

Kirill

On 26.08.2011 17:57, Pieren wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Kirill Bestoujev<bestoujev �� 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