-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a guest only on this list, having subscribed for the sole > purpose of asking this question but I thought it was not really > something for [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) > > I have extracted the following list of "second-level administrative > areas" for the UK from a data source named GADM. Each of these comes > with a bounding polygon, the license of which is a bit unclear to me > so I'd rather not import them into OSM right away, but I think it > would be ok for me to use these polygons to extract "mini planets" for > each of the areas. > > My question to you is, (a) would such "mini planets" be useful to > folks in the UK (does somebody else already do it, or does somebody > want to do it if I hand him Osmosis-compatible polygon definitions for > each of the areas?), and (b) is the list of administrative areas > below halfway sensible, or is it a mix of various levels that would > only confuse people and nobody would know where to look for his area?
Bet you're glad you asked now! Going back to the original post, No I wouldn't want all of these split out as pico-planets, but yes I would find a split-out set of counties handy; being in Essex my concept of this is a useful sized chunk, but t.b.h. I use a pretty arbitrary polygon to take out southern UK to use [on a Garmin, Vista Cx so size no object but mkgmap has a limit]. I would quite like to d/l less than the entire planet to this! I'd cheerfully take uk.osm as opposed to planet.osm & work from that. A set of county_or_other_area.poly files might be handy, also this might be useful to work on to define the boundaries in the map, as these are very awkward to map otherwise. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHVCPDJfMmcSPNh94RAo/kAJ9Q0ckhpAFnTonYrUCCg5DXdDkTCACfUOgq mfZFCn66ZurUAIFVqoPdFLA= =0p3W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
