Hi, in the "split up Netherlands on Geofabrik download server" thread the topic of the "ABC" and "SSS" islands was brought up.
I'll have to think about that. Things are a bit disorganised on the download server when it comes to overseas territories. For example, the Canary Islands have their own entry under "Africa" because that's where they belong geographically, even though politically they are of course a part of Spain. Once I split up Spain I'll probably have to add them under Spain with the other subdivisions. Guadeloupe, which is geographically in Central America, already has its own entry under "France" (which can be confusing since the france.osm.pbf does *not* contain Guadeloupe - just as the netherlands.osm.pbf is also confined to the European part of the country). The groupings "ABC" and "SSS" seem to be rather informal; other options would be to group everything in one and call it... well... "Nederlandse Antillen" is not an official term any more, is it? And "Caribisch Nederland" is just three of the six islands? One could also have separate files for each but they would be *really* small. Is the ABC/SSS grouping the obvious choice? I somewhat dislike the splitting of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. I figure that for all practical purposes, a map user would want to load a file that contains both parts of the island, and it would be cumbersome to have to pick the two halves out from underneath the Netherlands and France (especially as there will be some overlap so combining the two files can be difficult). I'm open to suggestions on this. I would guess the Dutch and the French are rather relaxed about the Saint Martin/Sint Maarten split but who knows, maybe it's a hot political issue ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-nl mailing list Talk-nl@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-nl
