MAE boundaries

Apply MAE (French Foreign Office) rules to OSM boundaries.

It will generate two geojson:

• boundary.json, with the international boundaries
• disputed.json, with the disputed areas

It also provides a list of country and city names.

System requirements

• postgresql
• postgis
• python >= 3.6

Usage

• Create a mae psql database with postgis enabled

    createdb mae
    psql mae -c 'CREATE EXTENSION postgis'
  

• Create python virtualenv, activate it and install python dependencies

    python -m venv mae
    source mae/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• run the script:

    python make.py all
  

Rules

• areas: define areas to be included/excluded from country boundaries, based on OSM keys on based on other areas name (using includes)
• disputed: list areas that are considered "disputed" by MAE
• countries: for each country (based on ISO code), list areas to include/exclude