[OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily
Andy Robinson (blackadder)
blackadderajr at googlemail.com
Tue Jan 15 14:59:28 GMT 2008
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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Martijn van Oosterhout
>Sent: 15 January 2008 2:31 PM
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>Subject: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily
>
>Hi,
>
>To my surprise this morning I opened up the coastline checker and saw
>that south east asia had been done. Yay! I thought, until I noticed
>the resolution was complete crap. Segment lengths of 50km not at all
>uncommon. I'd be surprised if osmarender will display it properly at
>all.
>
>To anyone thinking of doing this, please don't. We have reasonably
>high quality coastline data, please use it. Use landsat to fix any
>gaps. But segments like that just ask to be deleted and redone. This
>kind of bad data is worse than none at all...
>
Rather than immediately belittle someone's effort, how about turn it into an
education opportunity. I'm sure there will be plenty of new users who have
no idea that we have a coastline import process available at all. An update
on the import and adjustments might be handy right now.
Cheers
Andy
>Have a nice day,
>--
>Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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