Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-14 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Teemu Koskinen teemu.koskinen at mbnet.fi writes: I converted a few of the biggest lakes in Finland a few years ago to coastlines, and they worked fine, until last year some other user converted them to multipolygons with natural=water -tags. He also splitted the biggest lake (Päijänne)

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-14 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi writes: By the way, i checked that the biggest lake polygon in the data of the National land survey of Finland is the lake Saimaa, and it has exactly 287273 vertices and more than 5000 islands. It is a bit heavy to handle in PostGIS and Oracle

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-14 Thread Michal Migurski
On Apr 14, 2011, at 1:52 AM, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Teemu Koskinen teemu.koskinen at mbnet.fi writes: I converted a few of the biggest lakes in Finland a few years ago to coastlines, and they worked fine, until last year some other user converted them to multipolygons with natural=water

[OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-13 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
I wonder if it would not be better to map really big lakes as coastline. This is done somewhere, e.g. here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/555716 (Baikal lake) but it is not done here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/1308279 (Lake Onega) This results in bad rendering

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-13 Thread Teemu Koskinen
On Wednesday 13 April 2011 20:24:36 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: I wonder if it would not be better to map really big lakes as coastline. This is done somewhere, e.g. here http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/555716 (Baikal lake) but it is not done here:

Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping huge lakes as coastline

2011-04-13 Thread John Smith
On 14 April 2011 03:24, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: This results in bad rendering for low zoom tiles, with the lake showing up on zoom6 but not on zoom5 (in Mapnik). Wouldn't it be better to fix the rendering side of things, than incorrectly mapping just so it renders how