Re: [OSM-dev] Water polygon shapefiles for Openstreetmap-carto

2019-02-26 Thread Michael Reichert
Hi, Am 26.02.19 um 10:14 schrieb ika-chan! (OpenStreetMap): > Hi, will this mean that the coastline will eventually no longer need to > follow a particular direction? No, the coastline still has to follow a particular direction. Many map styles (e.g. OSM Carto) do not load OSM coastline ways

Re: [OSM-dev] Water polygon shapefiles for Openstreetmap-carto

2019-02-26 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
> Hi, will this mean that the coastline will eventually no longer need to follow a particular direction? No, the coastline still needs to be correct. The land polygons and (ocean) water polygons are created with almost the same process, they both use the OSM coastline as a source. See

Re: [OSM-dev] Water polygon shapefiles for Openstreetmap-carto

2019-02-26 Thread Jochen Topf
On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 09:14:16AM +, ika-chan! (OpenStreetMap) wrote: > Hi, will this mean that the coastline will eventually no longer need to > follow a particular direction? No. The mapping of the coastline will not change. Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-dev] Water polygon shapefiles for Openstreetmap-carto

2019-02-26 Thread ika-chan! (OpenStreetMap)
Hi, will this mean that the coastline will eventually no longer need to follow a particular direction? Best, — ika-chan! > On 26 Feb 2019, at 03:18, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > > The maintainers of Openstreetmap-carto would like to switch to water polygons > instead of land polygons. > >