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Regional extracts shapefile #10744

Open lhorus opened 5 years ago

lhorus commented 5 years ago

I've been digging up Maps.Me's OSM extraction process, and one thing remains unclear: how are the regional extract's shapefiles defined? For instance, Peru is split into three sections - North, Lima, South - which don't correspond to any administrative level, my guess is this is done to avoid having massive files. However, where and how are these defined? Manually in a hidden file? Automatically using Splitter or similar?

tatiana-yan commented 5 years ago

You are right, it was done to avoid massive files. And it's not hidden, see data/borders.