[Tagging] Coastlines = relation

[John Smith]

On 13 March 2010 19:33, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cool,
> It just means that mapnik might take a little longer to render it, if
> it is 2 ways of 2,000 nodes each. ( ie an island 4,000 nodes round)

There shouldn't be any way longer than 2000 nodes any more, someone
coded a script to split them.

As for time to render, mapnik uses shape files for the coastlines, it
doesn't render ways.