[OSM-talk] odd rendering + county boundaries

Thomas Wood grand.edgemaster at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 11:42:48 GMT 2009


The reason it is being rendered is because the coastline is included
in the boundary relation, not (afaik) any tagging on the coastline
and/or overlapping boundary ways.

2009/3/2 Aun Johnsen (via Webmail) <skippern at gimnechiske.org>:
> Maybe the coastal part of the boundary should follow the baseline as per
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maritime_borders
>
> The base line is the maritime border closest to the coast, and will
> probably not be rendered on most maps.
>
> --[]
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:22:34 +0000, Thomas Wood <grand.edgemaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I believe that there's some boundary rendering bugs that are yet to be
>> fixed in mapnik, I've not seen this one before.
>>
>> As a side issue, does the county boundary really go up the river like
>> that or just cut across the mouth? I think we need to review this. I
>> recall talking to steve8 who did the boundary relation for the
>> southwest counties that he'd just added the coastline to the relation,
>> and not considered river mouths. I'll look into the data myself if I
>> get the time.
>>
>> 2009/3/2 Kevin Peat <kevin at kevinpeat.com>:
>>> I made some changes a couple of weeks ago to the banks of the River Dart
>>> through Totnes
>>>
>>>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.42863&lon=-3.67974&zoom=15&layers=B000FFF
>>>
>>> Obviously those changes have been picked up as the county boundary is
>>> rendering along the updated river bank but the actual river isn't.
>>>
>>> Is this just a time lag thing or have I done something wrong?
>>>
>>> On the subject of UK county boundaries it's nice to see them rendering
>>> (in Mapnik) but it seems a bit odd for the boundaries to be rendered
>>> around coastlines and up river estuaries. Is it possible to only render
>>> the inland parts ie. where the ways are not tagged as natural=coastline?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Kevin
>>>
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>
> --
> Brgds
> Aun Johnsen
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Regards,
Thomas Wood
(Edgemaster)




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