Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-19 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Michal Migurski wrote: > > No rendering at all. The intent of this work is to provide labeling > hints, so you'd still render the regular roads from OSM and use this > dataset to place labels over them. We did this for the US when I > worked on the Stamen Terrain map, v

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-19 Thread Michal Migurski
On Feb 19, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Michal Migurski wrote: > >> I've been hammering away at an OSM generalization effort of my own, >> focused on the global preparation of simplified linework for major >> roads and route relations: >> http://www.op

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-19 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Michal Migurski wrote: > Christoph, this is so cool. Excellent work! Thanks. > I've been hammering away at an OSM generalization effort of my own, > focused on the global preparation of simplified linework for major > roads and route relations: > http://www.openstreet

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-18 Thread Michal Migurski
Christoph, this is so cool. Excellent work! I've been hammering away at an OSM generalization effort of my own, focused on the global preparation of simplified linework for major roads and route relations: http://www.openstreetmap.us/~migurski/streets-and-routes/ It's based on work that

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Thursday 14 February 2013, Stefan Ziegler wrote: > > If you look at the island Usedom in the Baltic Sea (Northeast > Germany, near Poland): it is connected to mainland. Usedom is really > difficult with small stripes of water between island and mainland. That's right. Since it is a raster base

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-14 Thread Stefan Ziegler
Hello, > From: Christoph Hormann > First properly dealing with both thin stripes of land and water is > exactly what my approach tries to do - you can see this quite well at > the Dardanelles where enlargement of the strait is made primarily to > the south since the northern shore is a thin s

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Wednesday 13 February 2013, Sandor Seres wrote: > There is an explicate invitation to comment the tool and the results > in the paper so, I take the liberty to do so and post some of the > many potential comments. Hello Sandor, thanks for your comments and for looking at the files in such det

Re: [OSM-dev] Coastline generalization tool and data

2013-02-13 Thread Sandor Seres
There is an explicate invitation to comment the tool and the results in the paper so, I take the liberty to do so and post some of the many potential comments. -That some thin, or small, area objects/portions spontaneously disappear when zooming out (scaling down) is natural and as a rule a qualit