[OSM-talk] Project of the Week 2010Mar28 - Swimming in data

[Grant Slater]

2010/3/30 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> anything tagged natural=coastline only updates intermitently, I'm not
> sure if there is a regular schedule or not, however shape files are
> produced from the coastline segments and so on and so forth.
>

Coastlines updating is currently a manual process for tile.osm.org

Coastline Checker is much more frequently updated:
http://coastline.openstreetmap.nl/ (see update line on site)
Details on wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline_error_checker

> tagging it natural=land will update much faster, but that is
> problematic in the longer term...

Do it properly. Not using some dirty hack. :-)

/ Grant