Need to draw exact polygon of political boundary

Question

I have a map in Leaflet:

  <TileLayer
    attribution='&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors &copy; <a href="https://carto.com/attributions">CARTO</a>'
    url="https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png"
  />
  {options.countryPolygon && <Polygon positions={options.countryPolygon} />}

I want to draw a Polygon of a specific country border. But every GeoJSON file I found does not contain precise boundaries so it does not cover the original layer well. Is there a way to extract the original border from this layer and highlight it?

I added illustration of problem I have met.

Welcome to GIS SE. As a new user, please take the [Tour]. International boundaries are subject to many potential complications, including capture scale, coordinate reference datum transformation, and political views. Tracking down the vector basis for the original image is likely to be more useful than trying to fit random data sources or digitizing from the source raster. — Vince, Jul 11 '23 at 19:47
@Vince Thanks Vince. I thought like this after checking 2-3 publicly available geojsons. But I can't find a way to track down the border vector basis of the original image/layer from this link (https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/rastertiles/voyager/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png). Is there some kind of tool that allows me to extract it from there (coordinates, of e.g. Albania but also other countries)? Or to map it somehow? Any suggestions or instructions are really welcome. — Seba, Jul 11 '23 at 19:52
The layer you referring to is tiled raster layer. There are no tools available to extract vector border from this layer. — TomazicM, Jul 11 '23 at 20:13
Does this answer your question? Higher resolution of country borders — TomazicM, Jul 11 '23 at 20:25
You can get pretty accurate country borders here: https://osm-boundaries.com/Map — TomazicM, Jul 11 '23 at 20:28

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 11 '23 at 19:56

There are two problems you're facing here:

Trying to get detailed data from GeoJSON
There might be a projection error in the GeoJSON you're using

It looks (to me) like the GeoJSON you're using is very low detail and shifted to the right from the map baselayer, (looks like Google Maps) you're using. You need to check that the projection/SRID for both layers is the same. The default for webmaps is usually WGS84 or SRID:4326 but who knows what the SRID for your country was stored in.

If you want this to be precise then you're probably better off downloading a shapefile that provides an authoritative definition of the legal boundaries and use that instead of some GeoJSON you found while hitting F12 in Chrome. There are plenty. You can either convert them into GeoJSON yourself using QGIS or some other tool. You're probably also better off pulling a WFS layer off some GeoServer that has the exact definition that is scaled to the right map zoom level for you.

Need to draw exact polygon of political boundary

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