[OSM-talk] New Zealand coastline and mapnik

[D Tucny]

On 25/12/2007, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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


Also, if you're interested in helping, look here...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Almien_coastlines_%28PGS%29
If you do start any uploading, please update that page...

FYI, Asia, far east/east Asia (region 23 in PGS) at least is coming along
very well, largely thanks to Arne/mixmaxtw...

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