[OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Burgess" <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>
To: "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org>
Cc: "talk" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:10 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] New Coastline in Mapnik


>
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 01:27 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> > I have switch the Mapnik layer over to use the new coastline shapefiles
>> > for zooms 10-18. These files are generated by extracting all the OSM
>> > ways with natural=coastline.
>>
>> Looks cool.
>>
>> How often are the shapefiles updated?
>
> I believe the original files are generated once per day but I'm not
> certain how often I'll import these into the rendering. I might only
> update them once per week when the new data from the planet dump is
> imported.
>
Weekly would seem fine. To be honest I don't see much point in updating the 
coastline more frequently than the main map data, particularly when 
coastline edits can be checked using the coastline checker.

A big thanks to  Martijn, Jon, and all others involved in this major step 
forward.

David



> Jon
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