[talk-au] natural=land v natural=coastline

[Ross Scanlon]

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:26:50 +1000
John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/10/6 Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com>:
> > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:22:59 +1000
> > John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2009/10/6 Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com>:
> >> >> They will render still.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Depends.
> >> >
> >> > Look at informationfreeway.org for this area at zooms less than 12 and you will see that most of the islands are missing.  The roads on Hamilton Island are in the middle of the water.
> >>
> >> I'm guessing T at H is wrong, mapnik renders them.
> >
> > Depends on the implementation of mapnik.
> >
> > If you tell mapnik to use the coastlines from the shape file it won't render them.
> 
> ummm?
> 

Have a read of this:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Coastline



-- 
Cheers
Ross