[Tilesathome] Coastline loaded for latitude 60 and higher

Matthias Julius lists at julius-net.net
Sun Nov 2 23:33:54 GMT 2008


Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> Matthias Julius schrieb:
>
>>
>> Without looking at close-areas.pl this doesn't seem to be the case.
>> Islands on a tile where the coastline does not cross tile borders are
>> rendered inverted.  We might call that a bug in close-areas.
>
> If the coastline is closed, and does not cross the tile border it has
> to guess wether it's sea with islands (which should be the default) or
> lakes on land.

It shouldn't have to because of the "water is on the right" rule.  The
only time oceantiles.dat is needed should be when there is no
coastline on the tile.

Don't ask me how to implement that, though.  I have not dealt with
those kind of problems, yet.

Matthias




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