[OSM-dev] Water polygon shapefiles for Openstreetmap-carto

ika-chan! (OpenStreetMap) mapper+dev at minoa.li
Tue Feb 26 09:14:16 UTC 2019


Hi, will this mean that the coastline will eventually no longer need to follow a particular direction?

Best,

— ika-chan!

> On 26 Feb 2019, at 03:18, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The maintainers of Openstreetmap-carto would like to switch to water polygons instead of land polygons. 
> 
> However, some users reported problems with the simplified water polygon shapefiles when this change was attempted in 2016. We believe the problem is no longer present, because the German map style is using these shapefiles without problems, but it needs testing. 
> 
> If you were one of users who had
> problems with the simplified-water-polygon shapefiles or if you’ve seen problems with rendering the current German fork on your setup, please let us know, and try out the change on your server. 
> 
> The branch is available at: https://github.com/jeisenbe/openstreetmap-carto/tree/ocean-polygons <https://github.com/jeisenbe/openstreetmap-carto/tree/ocean-polygons>
> 
> New PR: 
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3694 <https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/3694>
> 
> Old issue: 
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2101 <https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/2101>_______________________________________________
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