[OSM-talk] Slippy map - Mapnik layer UK coastlines

Jon Burgess jburgess777 at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 23 20:23:28 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 20:02 +0000, Keith Sharp wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 19:50 +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> > On 3/23/07, Keith Sharp <kms at passback.co.uk> wrote:
> > > How much data are we talking about, for the world, for the UK?
> > 
> > The number of line segments on a reasonably recent dataset is
> > 51,414,646. The exceeds the total amount of data in the current
> > database by a significant margin...
> 
> What are the possible data sources for coastlines?
> 

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Potential_Datasources#Shoreline_database

I believe PGS is the one which is used by SVN utils/coast_import/...


> Keith.
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