[OSM-talk] [josm-dev] Coastline checker / fixer

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Mark Williams wrote:
| Dave Hansen wrote:
|> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 17:31 +0000, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
|>> I vaguely remember months ago when the coastline checker at
|>> http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html was quite new, someone
| []
|> You can download a custom JOSM and validator .jar here:
|>
|> 	http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~daveh/josm/
|>
|> I'm also keeping my personal JOSM patch set much better split out than I
|> did before, so I'm very willing to post it any time if people are
|> interested in integrating some of what I have done.
|>
|> If you decide to run it and have any troubles, please report them back
|> to me.  I'll fix them as fast as I can!
|>
|> -- Dave
|>
|>
| Can anyone tell me why Validator (the normal one) chokes on this
| http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.49219&lon=0.27476&zoom=17
| please? I can reverse the way all I like, it's not duplicated, it's
| clockwise whichever way the arrows go though!

The normal validators coastline checker is completely useless. For a
start the error message it gives is "clockwise water". Well, that's not
an error. All areas are clockwise. Coastlines and islands are
anti-clockwise because they are holes in the sea area, but it's much
easier to just think "water on the right".

I've never had it find something that was wrong, and it frequently pops
up telling me I have "clockwise water" when I've just been fixing small
lakes inside islands that are supposed to be clockwise.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFH9LYcz+aYVHdncI0RAlAkAKCuZBE9VnUyFAQOUyoCOO6td/EXIQCgomLo
hKIwKr+dmqLVzP03F3+iBfo=
=6afb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----