[OSM-talk] Coastline import

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Mon Dec 4 18:18:14 GMT 2006


Having got the PGS coastline scripts set up on one of my computers it is now 
not being used, as I think that between Oliver White and myself, England, 
Scotland & Wales have been completed.

I'd like to:

1) import coastline data for parts of the world I have an interest in, 
Hawaii & some of the Greek Islands for example;
2) offer to run the import for areas other OSM users might be interested in

I assume there would be no problems with this?  The volume of data uploaded 
would I guess be low in comparison to TIGER uploads.

I did have a concern that it might slow down mapnik & other renderers, if 
they found bits of OSM data scattered around the globe which they then 
rendered, but I'm not sure if this is a valid concern, or even if at the 
moment the rendering of the whole globe would be attempted automatically 
anyway.

David 







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