I have been running a nightly coastline generation on my server, using the latest data from my jxapi server. Tonight I switched it over to filter out data that WTFE reports as dirty. This is somewhat more aggressive than the rebuild will be, but the results are worrisome.
A PNG showing the OSM coastline post-transition along with red dots for where the coastcheck program found errors is at http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines24b.png The red dots represent places where coastcheck found an error A few things can be seen: No continent will generate a satisfactory rendering. Australia, the US, most of Africa and most of Eurasia from 50 degrees south will be completely flooded. There are 3471 points where coastcheck found errors. Normally I would expect about 10. The following areas are particularly bad: The west coast of the US The US coast of the Great Lakes Australia Antarctica (which has significant parts completely missing with no error points since there's nothing left to even try to close) When examining the data, I found most of the ODbL-dirty status was mainly from the following accounts: hasse_osm_korinthenkacker (Antarctica) Kin (Antarctica) Blars (US West coast) I see a few ways for dealing with the coastlines: - Remapping. Obviously this is the only option where the coastline was actually created by the non-acceptor. - Adopting changesets. Many of the dirty ways and nodes appear to be imported. If the imported just imported PD data than they have no IP in the ways and they can be retained. - odbl=clean. It's generally easy to verify that a way is a coastline from imagery My coastline files are available in the usual location of http://pnorman.dev.openstreetmap.org/coastlines/ but are named coastlinec_p and processedc_p. processedc_p has not yet uploaded but will be complete in about an hour. Additional detail of some regions can be found at http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines-europe.png http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines-na-lakes.png http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines-na-west.png http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines-nz.png http://maps.paulnorman.ca/coastlines-au.png If opening processedc_p in QGIS be sure to make a spatial index or it will crawl. A refresher on coastlines for those who haven't tagged them in awhile: Direction *matters*. Land on the left, water on the right. Each end of each way should join with exactly one other natural=coastline way I am not sure when each processedc_p file will be completed. Cron starts the job at 5 AM PST and I'd expect it to take about 5 hours, mainly depending on WTFE server speed and my upload speed to errol. The coastlinec_p files will be uploaded first so arrive at the server earlier. Technical details: The results of the jxapi way[natural=coastline] is filtered by cleanway to remove any objects reported as severity=normal, leaving behind 0 or 1 node ways if necessary. It then is passed to the coastcheck programs and the results uploaded. A CT-clean way to which a decliner added a tag other than natural=coastline would be removed by this algorithm, but not by the rebuild. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk