On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:07:54AM -0700, Paul Norman wrote: > > 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?
If tile.osm.org has by now switched to using OSMCoastline and uses a current version there is no impact. If it still uses coastcheck it will break. Of course, using whatever software, the coastline will be in a different place after the planned import. Jochen -- Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
