On Thursday 13 August 2009 00:37:57 Ben Supnik wrote: > Hi Y'all, > > The coastline error checker is alive again! Awesome! :-) > > Can anyone tell me what the black line means, e.g. why do some > continents have it and not others?
The black line means that somewhere on that continent the coastline is broken. Black lines are polylines. Whole continents are polygons. They are in a different output file of the coastcheck utility. > Also two quality q's: > > 1. Pyramid Rock off of the coast of SF flags an error...I'm not sure > what's going on here. > > Way 32289185 is a CCW square island - > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/32289185 > > It looks okay to me but renders as a triangle, not a square, on the map. > (Is it possible the base tiles haven't been updated in a while?) > > Way 32289186 is a closed CCW triangle, that doesn't show on the map at all. > > Does anyone know why the coastline error checker dots this or the map > tiles are wrong? It's probably too small. In a previous discussion about too small islands Martijn posed the question if we should really call that coastline and not use another tag like natural=rocks or man_made=* > If the coastline processor source code is available, I could at least > take a look at it...depending on what toolset it's written on top of, I > don't know if I am qualified to fix these problems. http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/coastcheck/ -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
