[OSM-talk] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyonenotices...

[G. Michael Carter]

Short answer yes, I'm taking responsibility!   I've put in a temporary join on on the US side so it's a complete object while I fix up the Canadian side.   At the rate I'm going I should be tomorrow.

As for same level of accuracy... that's why I'm deleting it.  ;)   The coastline data is currently way way out of whack, there's an entire campground under water, chains of islands represented as a small square, and much more... CanVec isn't 100% accurate but it's about 200% more accurate than what's there now.

The problem with ignoring the data is we get many duplicate objects and other problem in OSM after upload.  (which, in the past, I've already been yelled at for)   Since I'm dealing with an area that has about 90 CanVec 25k tiles there's no way to do it at once.  So my solution was to just join the coastline to the canvec water grids as I go...

In anycase... it will be completed soon, as long as I don't get too distracted replying to peoples e-mails  ;-)



    If you are going to delete many miles of coastline data, are you
    then going to take the responsibility for re-entering this data
    afterwards, to at least the same level of accuracy as the current
    data? It seems to me that it would be better to tell your editor
    program not to display the coastline during your editing session.
    After all, there are likely to be some people who want to render the
    coastline, and they won't be able to do so if you have deleted the
    data. 

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