[OSM-talk] New Zealand coastline and mapnik

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Dec 25, 2007 7:50 AM, Alex S. <maps at swavely.com> wrote:
> Jon Burgess wrote:
> > On 24/12/2007, Alex S. <maps at swavely.com> wrote:
> >> I stopped importing coastlines when I saw the argument about deprecating
> >> it and purging the db of uploaded coastlines in favor of the vmap0 data.
> >
> > I don't remember anyone saying that.
>
> I see that it apparently has, in fact, changed.

I don't think anyone ever suggested using vmap0 since it is widely
known to be crap at high zoom levels. PGS is much better but has
"problems". Part of this uploading involves fixing these "problems".

The US is the area we're really interested in right now, and Asia, all
the others are nearly done.
http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html

Have a nice day,

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/