[OSM-talk] When will the next mapnik coastline update be?

[Lennard]

Peter Körner wrote:

> Yes, the processed_p is available from [1], where it is generated every 
> now an then (manual step). Then, it has to be updated at the osm mapnik 
> server, which, again, is a manual step.

This is not entirely true. The Coastline Error Checker runs through all 
the coastlines every every* night, generating a processed_p shapefile, 
but this version is not used by the OSM mapnik map. The latter generates 
its own coastline shapefile every time the full planet is reloaded, 
which happens on an infrequent schedule.

> So there are at least two people involved that are not working in an 
> planned time schedule (as nobody pays them for this, i think).
> 
> Fortunately, the coastline doesn't change that often ;)

More often than you may think, as existing OSM data is refined, or sand 
suppletion or depletion is performed, either by nature or by man.

* When hypercube isn't down or otherwise slow, which is quite often 
these days.

-- 
Lennard