[OSM-talk] Coastline upload improvements

[Hakan Tandogan]

Lars Aronsson wrote:
> As some have heard, I'm in the process of improving Ojw's script 
> for uploading coastlines.  In connection with this, I have some 
> questions.
> 
>>From previously uploaded coastlines, I have removed tags from 
> nodes and line segments, to get a cleaner rendering in Maplint.  
> Does this violate any obligation to attribute the source of 
> coastline data?

For the areas I have uploaded, I'm going (with a script) through the 
data again and remove the tags from the segments.

The nodes itself should continue carrying the "source=PGS" data, so 
anyone who cycles around the coast of a lake with a GPS device knows 
that his/her data is possibly more accurate, though.

The ways should in any case continue carrying the "created_by" and 
"source" tags.

> The existing coast_upload.pl script produces a log.txt file in the 
> current working directory.  Does anybody use this log file for 
> anything?

Only to see whether an overnight import failed.

> In the coast_upload.pl script, there are calls to a statistics 
> URL at almien.co.uk, that seems to be broken.  Is there any need 
> for such statistics, or should this call simply be removed?

Some way to automatically record which areas have been uploaded (and 
which have still be checked) seems useful to me. People started using 
the wiki for this.

Identifying the areas where coast lines are still missing got easier 
with the oceantiles support in t at h and lowzoom.pl, but a central 
location would still be nice... Nice, but not strictly necessary ;-)


Regards,
Hakan


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