[OSM-dev] Coastline by Name

[Sven Geggus]

Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:

> I was looking for Coastline-Polygons by Country-Name, that would be the 
> coastline intersected with the administrative border and saved under 
> that name.
> 
> Before I start to build that on myself I'd like to ask if there's 
> already Code to do that.

Don't know about a tool which extracts administrative borders,
but Jochens new osmcoastline tool is very nice:
git://github.com/joto/osmcoastline/

Importing both, administrative borders and coastlines into postgis and
running ST_Difference  may do the job.

Sven

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