[OSM-talk] Haiti coastline, [ was] coastline error checker stalled

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Burgess" <jburgess777 at googlemail.com>
To: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
Cc: "Lennard" <ldp at xs4all.nl>; "OSM-talk" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Haiti coastline,[ was] coastline error checker 
stalled


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> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 00:10 +0000, David Groom wrote:
>> Great,
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>> will these shapefiles be used for the coast outline on the mapnik
>> layer of
>> www.openstreetmap.org?
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> The coastline shapefiles on the main Mapnik layer have been updated to
> the 2010-01-20 data.

Thanks for the update.

> The main Mapnik site use worldwide shapefiles which
> take about 8 hours to generate so it is not really practical to update
> them every day. They are typically updated about once per month from the
> data released in the weekly planet dumps.
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That's a pity, as there were one or two errors in the 2010-01-20 data which 
have caused certian areas to render very wrong .

David

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