There are really not that many coastine problems left in OSM. I know the view below makes it look really very bad but it is only the east and south coasts of the USA that have significant errors left. It really doesn't take too long, especially as it is hard to stop! If about 5 people gave some time to it then it would all be done in a week or so. When the coast is clean the data will be much more useful for more purposes.
Here is a view of what is left. http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html?zoom=2&lat=52.83478&lon=-3.66051&layers=B00T My personal aim is to have the coastline free of these errors rather than the have it accurate. I often leave lots of work for locals to do, but I want the coastline to not have broken sections and have water on the right etc. Sometime I delete closed sections where the vectorisation process was got it all wrong, sometimes I reverse the ways to keep water on the right, and there are also linear sections of coast that either need to be completed or deleted. Can I suggest that people commit to doing different parts of the globe. For example someone might say they were doing Australia and the islands to the north east of there and also New Zealand. I suggest that the USA is dealt with by state. I am happy to work on sorting Florida. Any other offers? One person could probably sort Europe and Asia in an evening! Africa would take about an hour. the USA slightly longer. Canada might need two people to sort all the islands to the north. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
