[OSM-talk] Coastlines

[Artem Pavlenko]

Would it be more useful to join shorelines into polygons e.g create countries 
boundaries? 
Cheers,
Artem 

 
On Monday 22 January 2007 10:53, Dave wrote:
> On 1/21/07, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
> > Before you do any editing it might be useful to know why mapnik is having
> > a problem, so you know what it is you are trying to cure.
> >
> > Is it simply a case that the ways no do contain an ordered list of
> > segments, which is relatively easy to fix as JOSM has a menu option which
> > will re-order segments.
>
> Looks to me like it is rendering each way as a polygon, ie: drawing the way
> as a line then connecting the first and last points together and trying to
> fill the bits inbetween. This looks more weird in some places than others
> depending on the shape of the coastline and the length of the ways. I don't
> think there's anything wrong with the actual data.