Unless I hear that someone else has started it, I'll start uploading coastline for this area this evening.
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:37 PM Subject: [OSM-talk] Svalbard coastlines > Does anyone know how to get coastlines for Svalbard > (http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=78.99&lon=14.9 ), I know three people > who are going there this summer so I was thinking of giving them a GPS > for the trip. There is one guy who is going there by sea[1] so he will > need a coastline to moor his ship. > > Svalbard mapping is in a sad state, perhaps the Polar bear likes > cartographers too much. The i-cube sattelite images from OpenAerial > ends at the norweigan cost, the Google maps coast line is of higher > resolution that OSM but still very low res. Not even Norweigan maps of > the area are easily available[2] > > [1]http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=3203#p3203 > [2]http://www.gulesider.no/kart/?ps=2&companies=&n=80.4676619527361&s=75.9851782341589&e=24.834321988076&w=6.37208972333081&panX=116&panY=-77&tool=pan&scrollX=0&scrollY=0&zoomFactor=undefined > > -- > /emj > > _______________________________________________ > 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
