[OSM-talk] Coastline, again

[Dirk-Lüder Kreie]

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Martijn van Oosterhout schrieb:
> On 9/21/07, Keith Ng <khensthoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, it should be an island. In other words, those outline should be the
>> coast, with the inside being the land and outside being the sea.
>>
>>  In JOSM, the way is oriented anti-clockwise. I have not edited the nodes
>> and ways. Do I need to do anything to correct it?
> 
> The original data isn't perfect and sometimes (often?) things are the
> wrong way round. Use "Reverse segments" and "Reorder segment" to make
> it look right.

anticlockwise is the *correct* direction for an island, but the
coastline importer sometimes doesn't close the coastline correctly, look
for a double node on the island (mostly on the southern end)


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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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