I'm not sure if it works, but I think it might be the better solution to
have land flooded on the maps than to have water becoming deserts.
On land we might have data which makes errors visually obvious: There
are streets in the sea - something has to be wrong.
At the ocean we don't have, but in deserts etc. it's the same: There is
empty land - there might not yet be data here, or there's desert and
really more or less nothing to see.
Sure: flooded land does not look very well, but I guess it's found and
fixed faster than water that's rendered as land.
regards
Peter
Am 12.03.2013 10:20, schrieb Tom Hughes:
On 12/03/13 09:17, Jochen Topf wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:12:39AM +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
Interesting - that change was Andy's idea and I think the thought
was to reduce the damage done by any breakage and to ensure that
we're not matching any massive polygons in the busy (land) areas.
OSMCoastline first generates the land polygons, them splits them, then
creates the water polygons as inverse from the lang polygons. If the
land polygons are broken, so are the water polygons. So I don't think
you can reduce the chance of breakage that way.
Sure, but the point was to fail to the land background colour not the
sea so that you don't get "flooding" of the land.
Don't know if it actually works like that but I think that was the idea.
Tom
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