I was hoping that exporting osm xml data would also give me an outline of the territory in view. Where can i acquire such data? asked 21 Sep '10, 13:11  _jeremy edited 06 Oct '10, 00:19  TomH ♦♦ |
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answered 22 Sep '10, 07:36 _jeremy edited 22 Sep '10, 07:37 |
Administrative boundaries are directly available as download at Cloudmade http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ After this you may need extract needed admin_level (e.g. with josm find tool or with osmosis) answered 06 Oct '10, 10:13  frodrigo |
Administrative boundaries (if that is what you want) are marked in OSM with boundary=administrative, with admin___level set to the type of boundary (2 = national border etc., see the linked article). Therefore, it is relatively easy to retrieve all national borders from OpenStreetMap, you can try e.g. XAPI query for all admin_level=2 (warning: 200MB download!). answered 27 Sep '10, 15:03  Mormegil |
Unfortunately the gadm data is only free "for academic and other non-commercial use". I couldn't find a copyright notice for the diva-gis site. Really free and open data (public domain in this case) is available from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/, albeit with relative low resolution.