>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:talk- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martijn van Oosterhout >Sent: 15 January 2008 2:31 PM >To: Talk Openstreetmap >Subject: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily > >Hi, > >To my surprise this morning I opened up the coastline checker and saw >that south east asia had been done. Yay! I thought, until I noticed >the resolution was complete crap. Segment lengths of 50km not at all >uncommon. I'd be surprised if osmarender will display it properly at >all. > >To anyone thinking of doing this, please don't. We have reasonably >high quality coastline data, please use it. Use landsat to fix any >gaps. But segments like that just ask to be deleted and redone. This >kind of bad data is worse than none at all... >
Rather than immediately belittle someone's effort, how about turn it into an education opportunity. I'm sure there will be plenty of new users who have no idea that we have a coastline import process available at all. An update on the import and adjustments might be handy right now. Cheers Andy >Have a nice day, >-- >Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
