I have the whole OSM PH coastline from osmxapi. If you want, I can review the coastline and add a tag that can flag which segments can be deleted. If this is OK to everyone, I will do it. Any suggestions?
cheers, maning PS. This may take quite a while though. On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Ian Haylock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have downloaded the whole coastline in two parts. This is because the > Philippines is split between areas 11 and 23 > > I tried editing the two areas using JOSM, but it's just too slow :-( > > So I tried using osmosis to split the areas into smaller parts, but for some > reason all that remained after the splitting was the nodes, and no ways. > > It is possible to use coast_josm.pl to make smaller sections of the > Philippines, but I have not tried this yet. > > I think the best way to get the new coastline would be to fix it offline > using josm, then upload it over the existing coastline. Maybe tag it with > something like PGS2008 and FIXME so it's easy to find and select in josm. > > Maybe delete the original SRTM coastline first, but then you need to know > all the places people have edited, but not removed the SRTM tag. > > Editing 7000 individually, instead of a bulk upload is going to take a > loooong time. > > Cheers, Ian > > --- On Fri, 26/9/08, maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: maning sambale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Correcting Philippine coastlines > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], talk-ph@openstreetmap.org > Date: Friday, 26 September, 2008, 11:39 AM > > IanHaylock, > > I'm having problem downloading the the PGS coastline, I'm trying for > the whole country. Any Ideas why? > > cheers, > maning > >> found this page : >> >> http://www.lenz-online.de/divers/osm/ >> >> this page provides a simple way to download the PGS coastline. >> >> I've tried downloading one of the Islands north of Luzon, using > different >> levels of simplification from 0 > to 5. Even changing from level 0 to level > 1 >> simplification almost halves the number of nodes in a way. So I would >> suggest using level 0, and if simplification is required, then this can be >> achieved using JOSM's simplification routine. > > -- |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| | __.-._ |"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great." -Yoda | | '-._"7' |"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden| | /'.-c |Linux registered user #402901, http://counter.li.org/ | | | /T |http://esambale.wikispaces.com| | _)_/LI |---------|----------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph
