[OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

[Andy Allan]

Out of interest, how many automated imports are running at the moment,
and where? I've been watching your checker and hoping that the Eastern
Seaboard of the US would appear, so that we can use the improved
shapefiles asap, but it doesn't look like anyone is running
almein_coastlines or similar for that area. Are they running anywhere
else? Is someone willing to do so?

Cheers,
Andy

On Jan 15, 2008 2:30 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/
>
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