I want to be able to find out which country a given (lat,long) pair falls into, but I don't need this to be extremely accurate and especially coasts can be quite crude as false positive hits will be fine.
OSM maps with administrative borders such as the set from https://mapzen.com/data/borders/ come very close to what I want, but their resolution is much higher than I need so the files are a magnitude bigger than I would prefer.
Is there a way to query e.g. OSM for lower-resolution data about borders for all countries?Alternatively: is there a way to use a tool such as QGIS to simplify borders (hopefully without introducing gaps)?
I'm more than willing to put in the work if needed, but I'm not sure where I should start or which direction I should try.
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OSM maps with administrative borders such as the set from https://mapzen.com/data/borders/ come very close to what I want, but their resolution is much higher than I need so the files are a magnitude bigger than I would prefer.
Is there a way to query e.g. OSM for lower-resolution data about borders for all countries?Alternatively: is there a way to use a tool such as QGIS to simplify borders (hopefully without introducing gaps)?
I'm more than willing to put in the work if needed, but I'm not sure where I should start or which direction I should try.
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