[talk-ph] Correcting sawtooth coastlines, plotting white beaches

[maning sambale]

"If in doubt, map as land"

General tips here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Coastline_Corrections#General_tips

Boracay beach as an example:
http://osm.org/go/4ymKIT5F

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Ed Garcia <eppgarcia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While I was correcting coastlines from various islands using Landsat as
> reference, I encountered several coastal areas that obviously had white
> beaches ... Some are very white!  I am tempted and  thinking of adding them
> as natural:beach as I encounter them.
>
> Question:  Are beaches inland relative to the coastline?  or are they
> seaward from the coastline (where the coastline is drawn along the actual
> start of land)?
>
> thanks!
> ed
>
>
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