OpenStreetMap
Afghanistan district boundaries added in one month
Posted by katpatuka on 28 September 2016 in English.it took a month to add 99 percent of all district boundaries of Afghanistan. Only problem left is the fate of Darwaz district which I couldn’t decide: en.wiki says it got split into Maimay, Nusay and Shekay District but other sources name a Darwaz and Darwaz-e-Balla District.
Someone else can now make nice svg-files for use with wikipedia articles!
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Discussion
Comment from PlaneMad on 28 September 2016 at 19:48
This is amazing. Would be great to see the process that was followed that could help communities in India who are doing the same. Could never figure out how to easily convert polygons into boundary relations.
Comment from PlaneMad on 28 September 2016 at 23:00
Wow, theres a great diary post on just this https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ivan%20Garcia/diary/39547
Comment from katpatuka on 29 September 2016 at 05:35
That script is really new, yeah! Since I did not know the copyright status of the shapefile I had used as source I had to trace over it manually though. The source isn’t too detailed anyway and using mountain ridges as guideline I got an even better result with tracing. Besides I had been using the place name file for AF from GNS which is quite good and maps from https://humanitarianresponse.info as reference!
Comment from Jolaiya Emmanuel on 12 August 2019 at 17:44
Good job!
Comment from katpatuka on 12 August 2019 at 17:53
Thank you ;)