[OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
To: "Erik Johansson" <erjohan at gmail.com>; "Talk Openstreetmap" 
<talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines


> Unless I hear that someone else has started it, I'll start uploading
> coastline for this area this evening.
>
> David
>
>
Unfortunately I was not able to generate any coastline data.  Due I believe 
to missing Landsat tiles for this area.

I tried both the coastline upload, and lakewalker.

Sorry

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