[OSM-talk] need help in creating webmap for showing jagged/saw-tooth coastlines

Jochen Topf jochen at remote.org
Sun Jul 4 08:25:52 BST 2010


On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:33:36AM +0800, maning sambale wrote:
> We have been cleaning up our coastlines in the Philippines, the
> original coastline was an import of jagged/staircase-like coasts.
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Philippines/Coastline_Corrections
> 
> A perl script was created to report the starting point (lat,long) and
> the number of steps for aeach natural=coastline way
> 
> Couple of images in qgis here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/esambale/tags/sawtoothscoasts/
> 
> Large circles mean number of "steps"
> 
> Next task is to convert to a webmap.  Any idea how to create the
> webmap?  Probably similar to openlayers cluster layer?

If you can generate a shapefile with the information, I could include it
in the OSM Inspector (http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/). It's pretty easy
for me to include and all the infrastructure, like links to the editors
etc. is there already.

Jochen
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