[OSM-dev] Can't figure out why the coast line doesn't render properly for me

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 25/8/09, Nop <ekkehart at gmx.de> wrote:

> AFAIK there is a hard-coded filter in osm2pgsql that
> removes natural=coastline during DB input. The OSM maps
> render it from shapefiles, not from the OSM data. I had to
> map it to a different tag to bypass the filter.

I downloaded a recent copy of the shape files the other day, how often is this updated?