[OSM-talk] Update of world_boundaries-spherical?

[Michael Krämer]

Hello,

I just noticed the border between Sudan and South Sudan not being
rendered in Mapnik at zoom levels 1 to 3. At zoom level 3 the name
"South Sudan" shows up but the border is missing ([1]).

After doing quite some searching I guess the problem might be a
missing update of "world_boundaries-spherical.tgz". The file available
online [2] as documented in the wiki seems to be from 2008.

So I assume that other than the coastline file this file is not
automatically updated. Honestly that would be perfectly reasonable as
changes to borders visible at zoom level 3 and above rarely occur. But
as we had one of these rare occasions with South Sudan it seems to be
about time to update the file. Unfortunately I couldn't find out how
this update could be triggered.

Michael

[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=11.1&lon=26.5&zoom=3&layers=M
[2] http://tile.openstreetmap.org/world_boundaries-spherical.tgz