[OSM-talk] Coastline issue

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,


>> Could someone have a look at this piece of coastline around The Wash and
>> tell me why it doesn't render correctly as I can't see anything wrong
>> with it.
>> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Browse/?x=2048&y=1335&z=12&tileset=0

> I've deleted the ways involved, and remade them. Didn't help. I'm 
> leaning towards a bug in close-areas.pl, after checking the frollo.osm 
> and the frollo-close-areas.osm files. 

And spot-on you were. It took me forever to find it but it was simple in 
the end, and even mentioned by someone in another context on the list: 
My parsing regular expressions did not catch lat/lon values written in 
scientific form (0.5E-7 and so on); the tile in question contained some 
nodes with such a notation. They were ignored at parse time, and the 
segments using them deleted, resulting in a coastline that seemed 
incomplete.

A fixed close-areas.pl is already in SVN.

Bye
Frederik

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