[OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog at gmail.com>
To: "Andy Allan" <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
Cc: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily


> On Jan 15, 2008 9:09 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can someone who knows what they are doing with this stuff quickly run
> <snip>
> 
> Quickly? :) I think you underestimate the amount of data we're talking
> about here... From my calculations we're maybe 25% done or so, it just
> looks like we're further because we imported the interesting things
> first and chunks are done in low res.
> 
> My guess is Alaska and Indonesia are areas which have a lot of data
> not currently present.
> 
> (*) based on PGS containing 51 million points and the database
> currently holding 14 million coastline related points.

Though the import script does some form of simplification, doesn't it?

David

> 
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