[OSM-dev] coastline shapefiles unprojected

[Pedro Larroy]

So the data in openstreetmapdata.com are coming from the nodes tagged
as coastline etc? Is the geometry simplified?

Pedro.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Jochen Topf <jochen at remote.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:26:08AM +0000, Yuan Bo wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If there is data missing in openstreetmapdata.com, it means the data is missing
> or broken in OSM.
>
> Unfortunately openstreetmapdata.com data is currently out of date, but it will
> be updated again once we have ODbL planets which should be "real soon now". You
> can then look at the data and possibly fix errors in OSM data yourself (or
> wait for other people to do it.)
>
> Jochen
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