[talk-ph] Correcting Philippine coastlines

[maning sambale]

IanHaylock,

I'm having problem downloading the the PGS coastline,  I'm trying for
the whole country.  Any Ideas why?

cheers,
maning

> found this page :
>
> http://www.lenz-online.de/divers/osm/
>
> this page provides a simple way to download the PGS coastline.
>
> I've tried downloading one of the Islands north of Luzon, using different
> levels of simplification from 0 to 5. Even changing from level 0 to level 1
> simplification almost halves the number of nodes in a way. So I would
> suggest using level 0, and if simplification is required, then this can be
> achieved using JOSM's simplification routine.