On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:03 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:40:39 -0500, Frank Steggink <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've created a small Python tool which buffers the polygon in a polygon >> file (for Osmosis), > > Excuse me, wich polygon is buffered, when and for what purpose? [ ... ] > I guess these created polygon-files are nice for extracts that shall > contain elements next to the border?
Yes. Sometimes the surrounding area is interesting for context. Here is an example of osmosis making several extracts with polygons. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Examples http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-extract/polygons/polybuffer.py http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

