[OSM-newbies] Missing islands?

[Chris Jones]

Zeke Farwell wrote:
> From what I hear, Coastline rendering is somewhat cryptic and doesn't 
> always work how it's supposed to.  I've certainly had trouble 
> rendering coastlines.  One area I mapped over two weeks ago shows up 
> pretty well in Osmarender, but is completely absent from Mapnik still.
>
> I wish I could find more information on how exactly the renderers 
> work.  For example what tags are currently recognized, how they are 
> rendered, and when updates have been made to recognize new tags or 
> change the rendering behavior of old ones.  Does anyone know of such a 
> release note type of page for the renderers?
>
Have a read of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapnik

http://trac.openstreetmap.org/log/applications/rendering/mapnik/osm.xml 
is the commit log for the mapnik style sheet.


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