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

[Artem Pavlenko]

On 26 Mar 2007, at 19:04, Jon Burgess wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:41 +0100, Artem Pavlenko wrote:
>> Steve,
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>> So far I was running database and all tools locally.  I'll try to
>> setup something on dev plus wiki howto so everyone could have a go.
>> Are you on IRC at all tonight ?
>>
> Should be.
>
> Would it be possible to generate the coastline shapefile as part of
> osm2pgsql?

It would be possible but not from coastline data in main database.
> With the new experimental code there is the possibility of
> adding code to convert natural=coastline ways into a shapefile.

> Some
> code may will be needed to make sure the polygon is continuous  
> (probably
> by connecting the nearest pairs of disconnected nodes).
>

We should really fix data and amount of efforts to generate something  
automatically won't pay back IMHO. And there will be always undesired  
artifacts. It was my original plan but natural=coastline is too broken.

I really think we should keep coastline in a separate database and in  
a suitable format.

Cheers,
Artem



> 	Jon
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Artem Pavlenko
http://mapnik.org



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