[OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines

[David Groom]

Unless I hear that someone else has started it, I'll start uploading 
coastline for this area this evening.

David



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Johansson" <erjohan at gmail.com>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:37 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines


> 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
>
> -- 
> /emj
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