[OSM-dev] Inverted Coastlines

[Jon Burgess]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 19:55 +0200, Oleg Shaniuk wrote:
> Hi  All,
> 
> Anyone tried to create inverted coastlines? - So, oceans are polygons
> and islands/continents are "holes". I'm tried to use this code:
> 
> 
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/coastcheck
> 
> but it doesn't assemble.

Works for me.

> Does anyone know how to get working version of coastchecker or other
> ways to create/obtain inverted polygons?

I believe Andy Allan uses inverted shapefiles for the cycle map. Maybe
he can provide some pointers to how to do it.

	Jon