----- Original Message ----- From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Groom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Coasline error checker
> On Jan 6, 2008 3:11 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There were quite a lot of changes, this one seems to have been for the >> worse. I'll see if I can find the problem... > > Right, it turns out the system thought the islands contained > themselves. As usual once the problem is determined the solution is > obvious. > > I think the direction checker has reached a point where it's probably > possible to programmatically invert any islands it has determined are > the wrong way round. I think it still gets it wrong a few times and highlight errors in islands in the sea when there is no error, see http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html?lat=20.777844319065146&lon=58.738776835953225&zoom=16 I could point to a few more as well. But in general the script is working very well nad is really usefull. David > The case where it's really going to do the wrong > thing is where people have turned a section of coastline into > waterway=riverbank, but forgot to change the islands in the river. > "Fixing" it in that case will turn them into lakes. I don't think > there is all that much we can do about that... > > Have a nice day, > -- > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
