Hi, Dermot McNally wrote: > JOSM is the tool I usually use, and the validator is indeed excellent > at finding these cases (it's what I used to investigate this issue). > However, Even though the outstanding errors are a lot milder than I > had to fix in Ireland (where I had to reverse the directions of all > island ways), there's an awful lot of coast around Australia and > unless you can get an army of volunteers to carve it up I think you'll > be working on it for quite some time.
The whole of the Australian coastline, in OSM XML, is roughly 110 MB. JOSM can open this file in one go - I hesitate to say "with ease", that would perhaps be too much on the marketing side ;) you will require a fast machine with 2GB+ of RAM and/or some patience but if the problems you see are of a kind that can be fixed by the Validator, then this might be the way to go. You could attempt to get a current version of the coastline data through XAPI, or else grab a (very current) Aussie extract and run osm-excerpt-tags on it to reduce it to coastline only. (Opening the whole of Australia in JOSM would not work.) Merkaartor is likely to be quicker with large files but I don't know if it has an error detection/fixing facility like the Validator plugin for JOSM. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
