[OSM-talk] Coastlines

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Monday 14 August 2006 01:13, OJW wrote:
> One of the suggestions from last night was that we should make an effort to
> put coastline data into OSM so that the renderers can use it without having
> to load a separate dataset.
>
> I've written a script to upload GSHHS "full resolution" coastlines data of
> selected areas to OSM, and have uploaded some example data around the isle
> of skye (57.3, -6.25)
>
> There's a wiki page to describe the tags it's generating, and how to
> recognise, delete, or render coastlines generated by that tool.  The wiki
> also has a screenshot showing what the example data looks like in JOSM.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Almien_coastlines
>
> So... comments?  Should I run the tool and upload the whole UK coastline?

I presume you already set up a seperate username to import these segments. 
Just in case...

Joerg