Hello, a while ago I had read the announcement about a new dataset for internations borders being available from the US Department of State [1]. So I started updating the boders of DR Congo where necessary and also the border between Sudan and South Sudan. There I noticed that the adjacent borders to Ethiopia are currently not as detailed as those in the new dataset.
After giving some consideration I think it is a good idea to update the borders where necessary. I think that's typically the case where the current border origins from the CIA WDB [2]. As an example look at [3] - the current border is quite different from the river while the DoS data is coincident. I worked a bit with QGIS to split the original dataset into separate segements for each border between two countries. The process to convert those into osm files is also working fine. The most challenging part of course is to import the data and adjust all sub-boundaries and relations again. This requires quite a bit of manual work. For this an automatic import is not a good idea. But if anyone else is interested in working with the data I am happy to share them, of course. In this case I would probably create an wiki page to coordinate efforts. Also I guess I would somehow have to organize the data into manageable collections - all in all I currently have over 500 segments. Michael [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#US_Dept._of_State.2C_International_Boundaries [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#The_CIA_World_DataBank [3] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=8.456&lon=33.456&zoom=11&layers=M _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk