[OSM-talk] Coastline upload improvements

[David Groom]

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From: "Lars Aronsson" <lars at aronsson.se>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:47 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Coastline upload improvements


>
> 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?

I think its important to have the tags on the nodes to show the source, but 
see no reason why there are needed on the segments.

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

I never read it

> 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?
>

It was nice when it was working just to keep tabs on where coastline was 
being uploaded

David
>
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