[OSM-talk] There are new coastline shapefiles

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michal Migurski" <mike at stamen.com>
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 9:42 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] There are new coastline shapefiles


>
> Hi,
>
> I've started including new coastline shapefiles with the metro extracts:
> http://metro.teczno.com/
>
> The error checker was relatively painless to run, and with a few edits to 
> Canada and Brazil (http://teczno.com/s/5fs) and a test render I've just 
> verified that the contents of the processed coastline shapefile have 
> approximately the right number of continents.
>
> This should be an improvement over the previously shapefiles, which are 
> almost 18 months out of date:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Coastline_error_checker#New_hosting_required
>
> -mike.
>


Mike

Thanks for these, they have already helped me to fix some errors.

David