Perhaps someone who knows GIS software could take a simple coastline dataset like GSHHS (doesn't need to be as detailed as PGS or OSM, and GSHHS doesn't split-up polygons) then expand all the coasts by 20 miles and provide an OSM file that we can import sections of as part of a country's border?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Roland Olbricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's why it was so surprising to see the imported USA and California >> borders in OSM running along the beach - surely we want to move them >> out to sea? > > It's just additional data. So a user with sound knowledge of the U.S. border > regulation might simply correct or delete the robot generated sea border. > > Still, the coastline contains way more nodes than any other kind of > borderline. So using only the beach as border would fill up a program working > with boundary data with about 70 times more data than the solution with a > generated sea boundary. > >> Currently the borders are marked with the 2 countries - do we need to >> allow "region:left=international" if it's a border with the ocean >> instead of another country? > > From my point of view, these tags in the individual ways aren't anyway a good > idea, as they are more difficult to maintain consistent and complete than a > relation would be. > > Beside that, I have no idea whether it is useful to have a relation collecting > all the ways that are boundary of the open sea. > > Cheers, > Roland > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
