[talk-au] Australian Coastline

[John Smith]

On 25 May 2010 20:01, Markus <markus_g at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Are you able to explain how to check easily with JOSM if part of the
> coastline is missing?

JOSM often complains too much about missing or lacking coastlines...

> With reading about all the rendering problems with coastline not being a
> continuous polygon a relation seemed the best way.

Coastlines should be a polygon, but can't be for various reasons, such
as a 2000 node limit.

> 1) I was also planning to use the relations in for the maritime borders as
> the baseline as per my original email that no one commented on.

Maritime borders are 12nm out to sea, not along the coastline.

> 2) Consistent naming of coastline per state for boating with only the name
> needing to be in the relation.

Why do coastline segments have names?