[tz] Carving shapes

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Thu Oct 16 16:40:49 UTC 2014


On 16/10/14 17:24, Tim Parenti wrote:
> 
> The commentary in the relevant portions of the 'europe' file attempts to
> detail the scope of each zone, in terms of the political subdivisions of
> Russia.
> 
> Back in August, Blake Crosby and I had a brief discussion about how to
> find good geometries for these subdivisions, but we hadn't found much.
> https://github.com/blakecrosby/tz-map/issues/1
> 
> Eric Muller has created shapefiles in the past for some versions of tz
> data.  On his http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/ page, he shares an
> "ingredients" file at
> http://efele.net/maps/tz/russia/tz_russia_ingredients.zip which may be
> of some use.

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/?key=timezone

But it still needs help from people to update when changes do happen.
The political boundaries do already exist, so normally it's just a
matter of modifying relations to update things.

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