[OSM-newbies] osmrenderer shows coastline land/ocean inversion, regardless of way direction

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig" <shadycraig at devineprojects.org>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] osmrenderer shows coastline land/ocean 
inversion,regardless of way direction


>
> Thanks David,
>
> That trick worked as you said.
> It was a bit tedious as the 'island' also comprises of several
> satellite islands, it serves my purpose though :-)

then re-order by instructions

1)  search in JOSM for all ways tagged as natural = coastline, and en mass 
change to natural = land
2) draw the big box and tag as natural = coastline

It shouldn't take more than a minute to do :)


>
> I wonder how the T at H osmrenderer deals with the problem?

see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles@home/Dev/Interim_Coastline_Support


David

>
> Thanks again,
> Craig
>
> Wed Jul 14 16:05:35 BST 2010, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
>>
>> Not so much a bug, but I believe this is something which if difficult for 
>> Osmarender to deal with.
>>
>> effectively you have a circle (OK the island may not be a circle but you 
>> get my drift), and you want everything outside of it to be blue, but I'm 
>> not aware of any SVG to do such a thing.
>>
>> I think the solution is in JOSM draw a big square round the island and 
>> tag it as natural = coastline, and then change the real coastline tags to 
>> natural = land
>>
>> David
>