[OSM-talk] Broken coastline

[pmailkeey .]

Where should the coastline be ? HWM, LWM or MW. What about islands that
only appear at low tide !

On 11 May 2015 at 17:47, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Monday 11 May 2015, Mike Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a strong preference for how they are represented
> > (natural=coastline or natural=water), but I believe the mix and
> > incomplete implementation of the two approaches is causing rendering
> > issues.
>
> At least the OSM standard style does not have a problem with having both
> coastline and a water multipolygon - the Caspian Sea, Lake Ladoga and
> Lake Onega also all have multipolygon relations tagged natural=water.
>
> The 'half the lake' relation and missing inner rings of course call for
> trouble.
>
> > I have seen a number of them on the Canadian side.  Regardless of the
> > number, finding and editing all of them is going to be tedious and
> > error prone without a way to query for them. I can probably write
> > something that will operate on the file JOSM downloads that will
> > check to make sure I have fixed them all, but would like to leverage
> > existing code as much as possible.
>
> You probably could save the islands after you tagged them as coastline
> from JOSM (only the islands) and run them through osmcoastline as if
> they were the only land on earth and see if there are any
> errors/warnings.
>
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