[OSM-dev] coastline shapefiles unprojected

[Paul Norman]

> From: Yuan Bo [mailto:yuan.bo.sg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 1:26 AM
> To: dev at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [OSM-dev] coastline shapefiles unprojected
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I just started to use OSM coastlines. I used to use GSHHS for land
> masking purposes.
> 
> I've an issue here. I'd like to have complete polygons of coastlines
> (not split) using WGS84 projection (lat-long), like the one from
> http://openstreetmapdata.com/info/formats#shapefile (it has issue of
> missing some large island around Singapore). Migurski's unprojected
> coastline extracts are divided and not updated since July 1, but I can
> read.
> 
> So far, I cannot read the file processed-p downloaded from your site.
> Could you give me some pointers on this?

I'm uploading the coastline_c files to
http://pnorman.dev.openstreetmap.org/coastlines/, these are unsplit however
I do not believe they are areas, just lines.

They should take a couple hours to upload.

You'll also need to reproject them with ogr2ogr or another tool.

If these aren't what you need it'll either take coastcheck source
modifications or maybe some tool can merge overlapping areas in the
shapefiles.