-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Vollmert wrote: > Hello, > > there's some strange coastline data near longitude 180. See eg > http://openstreetmap.org/browse/way/24020654 > > I thought I'd ask before trying to fix this, in case I'd flood the > world otherwise. > > I haven't found an editor that works well in this area -- they all > seem to think the world ends at ±180 degrees. Here's a challenge: > Which editor will be first to support seamless editing all around the > world? (Let's leave the poles out for now.)
The right solution here is to map 0-360 degrees to the unsigned integers 0-2^32. When you get an overflow, the right thing happens. It also makes the most efficient use of the resolution available. Jamie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmdaYgACgkQz+aYVHdncI2C/wCg5dPiTb957XtiW/Tx3MbDper1 BrkAn2XJeTAJsHiVI2L1ioibGymBloQk =noyk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
