On Wednesday 31 December 2008 20:00:24 Peter Miller wrote: > On 31 Dec 2008, at 18:20, Cartinus wrote: > > Those Swedish islands show up as errors because they are too small. > > Anything > > with a diameter of less than approximately 10 meter shows up as an > > error. > > However the checker explanation doesn't say that > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Coastline_error_checker ) > > What should one do... > > 1) Delete all features smaller than 10 meters > 2) Keep them in a have loads of people go an investigate false problems > 3) Make them bigger so the islands as accepted by the coastline checker > 4) Adapt the coastline checker to that is accepts smaller islands. > 5) Add a tag to tell the coastline checker to ignore this feature > because it really is a small island. > > I vote for 4), everything else is a cop-out (1 and 3) or will waste > lots of people time (2) or be confusing (5). > > By the way, who maintains the coastline checker and how does one talk > to the people who maintain the code? Shouldn't there be information > for all tools about how to report problems, how to request features > and details of maintaining them?
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 20:13:12 Karl Newman wrote: > What about 6) Convert tiny islands to a node tagged as a rock or navigation > hazard. See this thread for some answers: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-November/031934.html I've used 2), 3) and almost 6) -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
