[OSM-talk] the coast and colour of the sea

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 10/31/07, Paul <mylists at wilsononline.id.au> wrote:
> Just looking at the coast of Australia and its very hard to tell which
> is sea and land using the main default OSM map.
> eg
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.2991&lon=150.1429&zoom=12&layers=B0F

For most parts of the world the coastline data used by mapnik isn't
good enough to be able to colour it. t at h uses the stuff in the DB
which is often better.

The answer is to update the shapefiles, but I have no idea how...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/