[OSM-talk] Osmarender and coastlines

[Paul Hurley]

Hello.

As part of my new found obsession^D hobby I'm mapping parts of 
Northumberland, and updating some wiki pages around that area (like 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Northumberland and 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Tyne_and_Wear ).  I'm trying to 
render images for these two pages and running into a few problems.  I've 
downloaded a uk planet file and done some test renders, tweaking the 
files to show what I want, but the coastline is rendering in a funny 
way.  It render what I assume is each individual way on the coastline as 
a closed polygon in blue, so there's a wiggly line (coast) and a 
straight line (the bot closing the polygon) which sometimes cuts off the 
coast.

Am I missing something ?  Is there a magic way to do this (maybe render 
as a line, not filled, and then fill the 'sea' somehow ?

Any ideas welcome

Thanks

Paul.

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