[NUUG fiksgatami] Present administrative borders in Norway as polygons in Shape file?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi.  Did you get this email?  I have not seen any reply.

[Petter Reinholdtsen 2010-11-01]
> Hi.  I had a look at the shape file export of OpenStreetmap.org
> available from
> <URL: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/norway/norway.shapefiles.zip >,
> to see if it could be used to get the internal borders of Norway
> (kommune and fylke).  The administrative borders are present, but only
> as lines and not as polygons.
> 
> Would it be possible to adjust the export to present these borders as
> polygons?
> 
> I have checked in OpenStreetmap.org, and there the admin borders are
> present as relations, so the raw material should be present.  The
> Shape file export seem to only export the individual lines, ignoring
> the borders that are drawn as rivers, and not group the complete
> border as a polygon.
> 
> The reason I am asking is that we need the admin borders for use by a
> Norwegian version of FixMyStreet, and importing it from
> OpenStreetmap.org seem like a good idea.  The FixMyStreet source
> currently handle shape files, so finding a shape file export of OSM
> with the adminstrative borders seem like a good idea.
> 
> Cc to the Norwegian fiksgatami project mailing list.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen