Hi, Tels wrote: > This works fine, except for coastlines, where I have two problems:
You're having exactly the same problems as the ti...@home project. The project has solved them by artificially closing the coastlines to form an ocean polygon. The mechanism to do it is in close-areas.pl if you care to have a look. > * The coastlines are just open lines, but I need closed areas for > rendering Water is always on the right, so the direction of the coastlines is important for you. > * When I download data in the middle of the ocean, no coastline crosses > the tile and I do not know that the current tile must be filled > completely with water You need to either download larger areas, or build an index that tells you which tile is "blue" and which "white". > * get a complete, closed coast line (possible for the entire world?) > and both best via some HTTP request :) A closed coastline for the entire world would probably be between 100 MB and 1 GB of data. Sure you want that? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
