[OSM-talk] Coastline checker / fixer

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:
>  I vaguely remember months ago when the coastline checker at
>  http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html was quite new, someone
>  suggested they thought it was mature enough to be used to auto-fix ways
>  that need reversing, and others suggested that it wouldn't be a good
>  idea to do that.
>
>  I'm wondering if it could add a FIXME=coastline_direction_checker_error
>  or similar tag to ways that it thinks are the wrong way around so that
>  it is easy to find them using JOSM's search function. Currently, I have
>  to keep switching applications between JOSM and Firefox to try to work
>  out which small island is the one that is backwards.

Technically possible, sure. The shapefiles (IIRC anyway) include the
way_id of the objects in question so it should be possible to extract
the relevent data from the error file.

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/