[OSM-talk] Fixed IoM

Dan Karran dan at karran.net
Sun Apr 22 18:39:51 BST 2007


On 4/21/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

>    I wanted to make a little change to the IoM coastline today and
> found that not only was the whole coastline one long 3.000 segment
> way, but it also included roughly 80 non-existing segments, so your
> chances of ever getting past JOSM's "this way is incomplete..." were
> slim indeed. I fixed that and in the process broke the way into a
> number of smaller parts that are easier to handle.

Thanks for fixing the Isle of Man coastline Frederik!

> If this is not ok for any reason - maybe someone had created the long
> way for a specific purpose? - I do have the tools to revert my change,
> just shout.

I had joined a couple of ways into one way in the belief that they had
to be like that in order to be rendered as a single coastline, but if
that isn't actually the case - as Dirk points out - then I'm happy for
them to be split into a number of smaller more manageable ways.


Cheers,
Dan

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