On 19 August 2011 19:40, Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> wrote:
> (removing the HOT list from this thread)
>
> On Aug 19, 2011, at 10:12 AM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>
>> As Toby said ogr2osm can create the multipolygons deduplicating ways
>> and nodes, but you will need additional logic for setting the right
>> admin_level on the ways...
>
> I was going to massage the data in PostGIS first, so not a problem.

Ok.

>
>> ... and you probably want to leave out the country
>> boundary which is already in OSM (so the border district relation will
>> need manual fixing up).  I have a python script that I used to do this
>> for the Spanish borders which had 3 admin levels combined and uploaded
>> together, including adding wikipedia= and population= tags iirc.
>
> Well, this is the other part I'm a little concerned by. Andrzej, do you - or 
> does anyone else - have any suggestions for how to dedupe nodes with the 
> existing national boundaries in OSM?

Unless the data origins from the same source as our OSM boundaries,
the nodes probably won't overlap, so I'd leave this as a manual step.
Then there's still the question of the districts touching the coasts
-- should the boundary relations have the coast or the maritime
country boundary as their members?

Cheers

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