<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">2012-09-21 Jochen Topf <br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font face="Arial" size="2">pb</font>>> Invalid geometry definition : Invalid for some unspecified reasons. This is never supposed to happen and must be fixed.<br>pb>> This definition is ambiguous to me. Do you mean that we should not see this error or that we have to fix something.<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">> This is described a bit better on the wiki page for this view at<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Coastline" target="_blank">> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Coastline</a><br><br>> I changed the short message to be a bit more helpful:<br>> "Geometry is invalid for some unspecified reason. Fix all other errors shown<br>> and this should go away."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Jochen, looking more deeply without showing lines, I found that the problem arises north of Long Island New-York where we see Intersection nodes. In fact, i see two coaslines polygons crossing one
over the other.</div><br>Thanks a lot for this.<br><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Jochen Topf <jochen@remote.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps@yahoo.fr> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc :</span></b> "talk@openstreetmap.org" <talk@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 21 septembre 2012 16h00<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector<br> </font> </div> <br>On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Pierre Béland wrote:<br>> 2010-09-21 Jochen Topf<br>> > I have just added a change to the OSM Inspector which now shows even more<br>> > potential coastline errors in the new "Questionable" category.<br>> <br>> Jochen, it is a nice addition. <br>> <br>> <br>> Looking at the map, I see all of America coastline being tagged with Invalid geometry. <br>> <br>> <br>> Invalid geometry definition : Invalid for some unspecified reasons. This is never supposed to happen and must be fixed.<br>> <br>> This definition is ambiguous to me. Do you mean that we should not see this error or that we have to fix something.<br>> <br>> <br>>
Other then that, with such a long coastline, it is difficult to detect where the error is.<br><br>This is described a bit better on the wiki page for this view at<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Coastline" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Coastline</a><br><br>I changed the short message to be a bit more helpful:<br>"Geometry is invalid for some unspecified reason. Fix all other errors shown<br>and this should go away."<br><br>Jochen<br>-- <br>Jochen Topf <a ymailto="mailto:jochen@remote.org" href="mailto:jochen@remote.org">jochen@remote.org</a> <a href="http://www.remote.org/jochen/" target="_blank">http://www.remote.org/jochen/</a> +49-721-388298<br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>