[OSM-talk] Slippy map - Mapnik layer UK coastlines
David Groom
reviews at pacific-rim.net
Mon Mar 26 15:04:32 BST 2007
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
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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out of date planet file.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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