[OSM-talk] Beaches at lower zoom levels

[Steve Bennett]

Out of curiosity, where do you get this low- and high-tide data from
anyway? On aerial photos it's pretty hard to see anything except where
the water happened to be at the time of the photo.

Steve

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Alan Mintz
<Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 2010-08-18 21:38, Gaz Davidson wrote:
>
> Beaches are missing at zoom=12 in Mapnik and zoom=13 in Osmarender, either
> that or the sea is rendered over them. Is this by design or a bug?
>
> For example, here's my hometown:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.6457&lon=-2.999&zoom=13
>
> Moving the coastline seems excessive, is there a way around this?
>
> Are coastlines supposed to be on the low-tide position, high-tide position,
> or middle of the beach? I've been gluing the low-tide side of beaches to
> coastline on the few I've edited, since their position suggested that was
> the intent.
>
> --
> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
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