[OSM-talk] Coastline issue

[Andrew Luck]

Nice work. Thanks.

Andrew


Frederik Ramm wrote:
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> Hi,
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>>> 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
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>> 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. 
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> 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.
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> A fixed close-areas.pl is already in SVN.
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> Bye
> Frederik
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