[OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines

[Erik Johansson]

Does anyone know how to get coastlines for Svalbard
(http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=78.99&lon=14.9 ), I know three people
who are going there this summer so I was thinking of giving them a GPS
for the trip. There is one guy who is going there by sea[1] so he will
need a coastline to moor his ship.

Svalbard mapping is in a sad state, perhaps the Polar bear likes
cartographers too much. The i-cube sattelite images from OpenAerial
ends at the norweigan cost, the Google maps coast line is of higher
resolution that OSM but still very low res. Not even Norweigan maps of
the area are easily available[2]

[1]http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3203#p3203
[2]http://www.gulesider.no/kart/?ps=2&companies=&n=80.4676619527361&s=75.9851782341589&e=24.834321988076&w=6.37208972333081&panX=116&panY=-77&tool=pan&scrollX=0&scrollY=0&zoomFactor=undefined

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/emj