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

[David Groom]

Message+1 from me

David
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Chilton 
  To: Artem Pavlenko ; David Groom 
  Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org 
  Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 2:39 PM
  Subject: RE: [OSM-talk] Slippy map - Mapnik layer UK coastlines


  Artem,

  Can you explain what is possible/required (step-wise), somewhere in wiki?
  I am willing to particpate in the work if it is something I can encompass.

  Cheers
  STEVE
  Steve Chilton, Learning Support Fellow
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Artem Pavlenko
    Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:49 PM
    To: David Groom
    Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
    Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Slippy map - Mapnik layer UK coastlines


    Hi David, 


    On 23 Mar 2007, at 11:48, David Groom wrote:


      It seems that the UK coastline is beginning to render better in the Mapnik 
      layer of the slippy map (it's a solid blue fill, rather than the odd shaped 
      grey polygons).


      However it does appear that the source for the coastline might be a rather 
      out of date planet file.


      In some places, eg 
      http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=50.85383936185782&lon=-1.315713476905844&zoom=15 
      ,there is an exact correlation between coastline which is shown in the 
      Mapnik and Osmarender layers.


      In other places eg , 
      http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=50.81094579389664&lon=-0.09869895092239864&zoom=15 
      ,the coastline outline in the Osmarender layer seems to be much more recent 
      than the Mapnik layer.




    For most of the world I was using original shoreline data, hence it's not as smooth as it should. Polygons are only available for England and Wales, the rest gets blue shoreline lines.  To have proper polygons for the whole planet :


    1. We need to agree that storing countries boundaries as polygons is way forward.


    2. We have to decide if storing these polygons in main OSM database is a good idea or not. I personally think it'll be better to store them separately. 


    3. Start creating polygons. I have all the tools and I'm happy to help anyone, but it is a big task which requires community participation.
     On the other hand, If one person capable of fixing most of the UK coastline it should be peanuts for OSM as a whole. If you want to see nice blue sea and land just do it, don't wait!


     Cheers,
    Artem


      David 






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