[OSM-talk] Coastline updates

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 18 November 2013, Jochen Topf wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For the last about two weeks we haven't gotten any coastline updates
> through. The problem is that every day there is something broken
> somewhere with the coastline. Often problems get fixed the same day,
> but new problems show up the next.
>
> I have now changed the coastline update process from "once a day" to
> "once every 4 hours". This means updates show up quicker in the OSM
> Inspector at http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=coastline .

Sounds good.  This should also increase the chance that if you see an 
error in the OSMI it is not already fixed (which is very common at the 
moment and somewhat annoying of course).

How sensitive is your system by the way in discarding a coastline as 
broken?  Obviously any unfixable error in one of the four large 
continental coastlines will trigger it.  Same for large islands like 
Greenland and New Guinea i suppose.  But there probably is a limit.  
There have for example been many coastline errors in the Philippines 
recently due to recent mapping activity there but many on fairly small 
islands.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/