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<p>On Saturday 24 February 2007 12:41, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:</p>
<p>> On 2/24/07, Artem Pavlenko <artem@pavlenko.uklinux.net> wrote:</p>
<p>> > > How does the information in the shapefile get to the user's display?</p>
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<p>> > Well, Mapnik can read shapefiles directly trough datasource abstraction.</p>
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<p>> Then why hasn't it been done?</p>
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<p>Mapnik already renders vmap boundaries from shapefiles.</p>
<p>I just didn't have time to tweak osm.xml to use coastline polygons. I'll try to update osm.xml for the next planet. </p>
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<p>> > For osmarender you could write shp to svg transformer (shapelib??) or</p>
<p>> > even better store coastlines in postgis and use asSVG(geometry).</p>
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<p>> Possibly. My point is that generating the land/sea tiles is already in</p>
<p>> progress.</p>
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<p>> http://kleptog.org/seatiles/</p>
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<p>Hmm.. I can't see any tiles.. Can you send me some?</p>
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<p>> I have no idea how long it would take to implement your idea (why</p>
<p>> wasn't it suggested before when almien asked for it?)</p>
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<p>I suggested this on: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-February/003045.html</p>
<p>I don't recall almien asking about it. It is possible I missed this somehow.</p>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Artem</p>
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