> From: Jochen Topf [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 9:27 AM > Subject: [OSM-dev] Coastline changes Antarctica > > Hi! > > In the course of the Antarctica coastline update (see > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Import_2013) we want to > change how the coastline of Antarctica is represented in OSM. > Specifically the coastline currently only works for the usual Mercator > web maps but not other projections and we want to fix that. > > I have described the details in this blog post: > http://blog.jochentopf.com/2013-03-11-state-of-the-osm-coastline.html > Have a look at the chapter about Antarctica. (The other stuff might be > interesting, too, though.) > > If you are extracting coastline data from OSM yourself, you should > probably be aware of these issues.
How will these changes impact the coastline used for tile.openstreetmap.org? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
