[OSM-talk] UK coastline problem

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Tue Nov 10 16:51:10 GMT 2009


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Tony Grimley
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:54 PM
> Subject: [OSM-talk] UK coastline problem
>
>
> I loaded the Openstreetmap UK map onto my Garmin Legend HCx and, on a 
> visit to the island of Guernsey, I could see from it that the OSM version 
> of the coastline, for at least the NE area of the island, seemed to be 
> only a poor approximation of the actual shape.
> This was confirmed when I traced the OSM version of that section of 
> coastline in Mapsource, saved it as a GPX track, added to a Google 
> satellite image and compared it with that version.
> As I have only learned to make contributions through Potlatch I do not 
> have the resources or knowledge to correct this problem. Is there anyone I 
> can contact who might be able to assist?

The coastline comes from the PGS import, modified where appropriate by 
ground survey.

I'm not aware of any better source of coastline data for that area.

David


> Tony
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