Hiya, I'm trying to extract coastline data from OSM... specifically, I want shapefiles exactly like the ones that are available (processed_p and shoreline_300), but * in wgs84 (no projection to mercator) * without splitting up of polys into tiles
I'm not using the data with Mapnik or to draw it onto tiles -- instead I'm converting the shapefiles into a mesh (http://i.imgur.com/vuYmc.png). So I have a few related questions... Are there any tools I can use to merge the tiles into more reasonable polys? Something along the lines of the data available from NaturalEarthData? If not, I see there are a couple of tools to extract the data directly: coastlinecheck (http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/coastcheck/), and osmcoastline (https://github.com/joto/osmcoastline/). Both of these process planet.osm.pbf, which sometimes needs a 64bit machine with a certain amount of ram etc, depending on what exactly the tool is doing. I have an older computer with 2gb of ram... Would it be possible for me to use either of these tools? Preet _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
