[OSM-talk] coastline accuracy?

[Alice Kaerast]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:39:26 +0200
Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:48:06 Alice Kaerast wrote:
> > And remember the coastline should show the mid-tide level.
> 
> No, it should show the high-tide level. Most coastline data in OSM is
> based on PGS data, which shows the high-tide level.
> 
> See: 
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Anatural%3Dcoastline#Tidal_position>
> 

It's a good job you pointed that out, I've always been led to believe
it was mid-tide level and am going to do some tweaking of some
coastlines soon.  I'm sure there's either a wiki page or a list post
suggesting it should be mid-tide somewhere.

-- 
Alice