| 568 | 568 | You can test whether an object is located inside or outside of a specific territory. JOSM has an internal database for this. The [source:/trunk/resources/data/boundaries.osm territories file] can be downloaded and opened in JOSM to investigate it [attachment:boundaries.png (screenshot preview)]. It contains borders of all countries of the world. Due to performance reasons the borders are simplified. They can be refined for special cases on request. The territories are "tagged" with their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 codes]. USA, Canada, China, India and Australia have additional boundaries for their subdivisions. See the following examples on how to use the territory selectors. Territory selectors are less useful in mappaint styles and can be very resource heavy there. However they are much more useful for [wikitr:/Help/Validator/MapCSSTagChecker mapcss based validator rules]. To select territories with left-hand-traffic or right-hand-traffic, there is a simpler way, see [#PseudoClasses Pseudo Classes]. See #10387 for main implementation of this feature. |
