[OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

[John Smith]

On 14 April 2011 03:24, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> This results in bad rendering for low zoom tiles, with the lake
> showing up on zoom6 but not on zoom5 (in Mapnik).

Wouldn't it be better to fix the rendering side of things, than
incorrectly mapping just so it renders how you expect it to?

In terms of fixing the rendering, all that would need to be done is
have polygons of a certain area render sooner.