[OSM-talk] landsat.jar / getting more coast uploaded

[Jonathan McDowell]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:03:54AM +0100, Dermot McNally wrote:
> On 13/05/07, Jonathan McDowell <noodles at earth.li> wrote:
> >I've slowly been doing a few more bits of Northern Ireland. What looks
> >really odd at present is the lack of Lough Neigh, right in the middle.
> >I went looking for landsat.jar for JOSM to try and get something
> >roughly correct in shape present, but I can't seem to find it - has it
> >been discontinued and is there anything else that might help me out
> >instead? Alternatively can someone who's doing a coastline import
> >upload the lough (assuming it does cover large bodies of water within a
> >country and not just literally the coast).
> 
> From your request, I'm guessing (and hoping) you aren't uploading any
> coastline yourself.

No, I'm aware others are in the process of doing so programatically,
hence the post to the list.

> I have uploaded (unless I've missed a bit) the entire Irish coastline,
> and cleaned up a lot of it including all of the NI "outer coast" (i.e.
> not including Loughs Neagh, Erne or anything else inland that isn't an
> actual inlet or estuary. 

The river Bann inlet at Coleraine is incomplete - there are several
gaps that I can see (downloading points into JOSM rather than looking
at the rendered maps).

> For the specific case of Lough Neagh, I'm pretty sure that one of my
> coastline imports had a bounding box that would have enclosed at least
> some of the Lough, so I'm therefore going to assume that internal
> waterways are not included on the source data. Which also means that
> your safe to hack on any of this without it impacting on what I'm
> doing.

Right, I'll have a look at doing a trace from landsat this week then.

J.

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Revd. Jonathan McDowell, ULC | How I wish, how I wish you were here.