[OSM-talk] Improved coastline view in OSM Inspector

[Jochen Topf]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:50:03PM +0100, Pierre Béland wrote:
> 2010-09-21 Jochen Topf
> >  I have just added a change to the OSM Inspector which now shows even more
> >  potential coastline errors in the new "Questionable" category.
> 
> Jochen, it is a nice addition. 
> 
> 
> Looking at the map, I see all of America coastline being tagged with Invalid geometry. 
> 
> 
> Invalid geometry definition : Invalid for some unspecified reasons. This is never supposed to happen and must be fixed.
> 
> This definition is ambiguous to me. Do you mean that we should not see this error or that we have to fix something.
> 
> 
> Other then that, with such a long coastline, it is difficult to detect where the error is.

This is described a bit better on the wiki page for this view at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Inspector/Views/Coastline

I changed the short message to be a bit more helpful:
"Geometry is invalid for some unspecified reason. Fix all other errors shown
and this should go away."

Jochen
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