[OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

[Christoph Hormann]

On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Michal Migurski wrote:
>
> No rendering at all. The intent of this work is to provide labeling
> hints, so you'd still render the regular roads from OSM and use this
> dataset to place labels over them. We did this for the US when I
> worked on the Stamen Terrain map, visible here:
> http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/#13/37.7786/-122.4408

So rendering of the roads themselves is based on the original OSM data.

This explains the gaps - for labeling they do not matter.

> So a re-tag would fix this? How long does the data take to re-run?

I added it to the list:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Imagico/coastline_problems_for_generalization

The run for the whole earth takes about 6 hours (just the 
generalization, osmcoastline not included).

Greetings,

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/