[OSM-talk] Coastlines

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net>:

> Also it breaks the idea of having all OSM data derived from user 
> entered GPS data.

I'm not sure that OSM needs to be restricted solely to GPS-derived data. There
are plenty of other sources.

For the UK, out-of-copyright historical mapping (reprojected from the National
Grid) could be used to trace a high-resolution coastline.

Richard