[OSM-talk] How to fix wonky coastline?

[David Groom]

Steve

Rendering of coastlines in the Mapnik layer is problematic at the moment.

You could try using JOSM to re-order the segments which make up the way, but 
I don't think it will help.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Bromwich" <osm at fop.ns.ca>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:48 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] How to fix wonky coastline?


> I've been mapping the local coastline using the Yahoo imagery, and it
> seems to have gone awry somewhere; as seen at
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=44.62611672143749&lon=-63.51730825102606&zoom=12
> the renderer seems confused about which side of the coastline the sea goes
> on. The trigger seems to be a bridge
> (http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=44.663245246651634&lon=-63.58339786683845&zoom=14);
> on one side it's fine, on the other the sea rendering seems to jump from
> side to side, with the effect that half of Halifax looks to be under
> water. Is there any way to hint to the renderer which side the sea goes
> on? Alternatively, have I missed something obvious about how to annotate
> the coastline?
>