[OSM-talk] Coastlines

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "OJW" <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk>
To: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Coastlines


> On Wednesday 16 August 2006 10:22, David Groom wrote:
>> It would be usefull to actually see this in OSM, and do the comparison
> there.
>
> It's starting in Havenstreet now if you want to see data
>
> Regards
>
> OJW



>From the coastline data uploaded so far for the Isle of Wight, without any 
detailed analysis, I can say it looks fairly accurate.

I have a feeling that the compared to data in OSM, the coastline from the 
shapefile is probably a slightly to the south.  Its difficult to quantify 
this without walking along the shoreline in various place, but its probably 
somewhere about 5 - 15 meters.  I wonder if a similar observation was 
noticeable from anyone with a detailed knowledge of the Isle of Man?

David