[OSM-talk] New Zealand coastline and mapnik

[Karl Newman]

On Dec 24, 2007 5:12 PM, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 24/12/2007, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Dec 24, 2007 2:43 PM, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > On 24/12/2007, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Monday 24 December 2007, Rob Reid wrote:
> > > > > It has also been tidied up in places where high res Yahoo imagery is
> > > > > available.
> > > > > What needs to happen now so that it appears correctly for Mapnik zoom
> > > > > levels 10 and above?
> > > >
> > > > A question which I've been asking myself, since things like this aren't
> > > > exactly pretty results:
> > > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.2573&lon=4.3559&zoom=14&layers=B0F
> > > > but I have no idea how to update the Mapnik data...
> > >
> > > I can update the renderer to use a different shapefile fairly easily
> > > but the issue right now is that the coastline data is incomplete for
> > > the rest of the world (with most of the US underwater). To use the
> > > current data would requires me to do some selective merging of the
> > > existing vmap0 files with Kleptog's shapefiles (If I can get them or
> > > the scripts from him). It will probably take a few hours to do the
> > > work and verify that it renders OK.
> > >
> > > It would be a lot easier if we could use the new data for the whole
> > > world and get rid of the vmap0 data but are still missing large parts
> > > of the North America and Eastern Europe.
> >
> > From what I understand of the mapnik files, we're using a vmap0-based
> > shapefile for z0-z9, and a separate shapefile that Artem created by
> > hand for z10+ that covers some (most) of the UK, with coastline
> > strokes elsewhere. Would it not be possible to use Martijn's shapefile
> > for the high zoom stuff, and keep the low zoom on vmap0 for now?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
>
> We can for some areas of the globe but areas like the USA will need to
> be excluded otherwise nearly all of it will appear underwater.
>
Well everyone in the rest of the US keeps hoping California will slide
into the ocean (and probably everyone in the rest of the world wishes
the US would sink into the ocean too), so maybe that would make some
people happy. :-)

Karl