theCrag/website — Issue #437: Adding country borders by default
Author: MelwinQ
Created: 2011-12-16 20:04:28+00:00
State: open

Not important, but probably worth considering:
Many political borders have already been mapped in thecrag, but it is a labourous process, especially at the larger scale. Especially ineffective, when a borderline between two adjacent countries has to be traced twice. Couldn't the borders be imported from some free available source? Here are some suggestions, though I don't know which one would be best suited to the internal needs of thecrag:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/ - Openstreetmap data, which also allows including further administative levels like federal states, etc.
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ - already simplified vector data, more suitable for viewing at coarser scales
http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php

cheers, Melwin