----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Andy Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Talk Openstreetmap" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Tracing coastline by hand unnecessarily


> On Jan 15, 2008 9:09 PM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can someone who knows what they are doing with this stuff quickly run
> <snip>
> 
> Quickly? :) I think you underestimate the amount of data we're talking
> about here... From my calculations we're maybe 25% done or so, it just
> looks like we're further because we imported the interesting things
> first and chunks are done in low res.
> 
> My guess is Alaska and Indonesia are areas which have a lot of data
> not currently present.
> 
> (*) based on PGS containing 51 million points and the database
> currently holding 14 million coastline related points.

Though the import script does some form of simplification, doesn't it?

David

> 
> Have a nice day,
> -- 
> Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> 



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