[OSM-dev] Simplifying glacier rendering in Antarctica

[Christoph Hormann]

Since hardly any OSM map correctly renders glaciers in Antarctica at the 
moment despite the current tagging scheme [1] being used for more than 
a year now i have put together a processing script to simplify this for 
map developers.  It allows you to render the Antarctic ice the same way 
as normal glaciers despite the fact it is mapped differently.

Some more background information can be found in a blog post [2], the 
script on github [3] and the resulting shapefiles on [4].

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Tagging
[2] http://blog.imagico.de/easier-rendering-of-the-antarctic-land-ice/
[3] https://github.com/imagico/icesheet_proc
[4] http://www.imagico.de/map/icesheet_download_en.php

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