SandorS <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand the two involved processes are independent and the results > are just mixed together at certain moment during the map-making process.
Right. The main reason for doing this is, that coastlines tend to be broken very often. Likely they are broken more often than they are actually usable. Thus it has been decided a long time ago, that land polygons are rendered from shapefiles proven to be mostly correct (e.g. all continents do exist) and up-to-date stuff produced by osm2pgsql. If you like to render your own map you can easily produse matching data from the same planet file. The coastline processing toolchain is available here: https://github.com/osmcode/osmcoastline Regards Sven -- "If you don't make lower-resolution mapping data publicly available, there will be people with their cars and GPS devices, driving around with their laptops" (Tim Berners-Lee) /me is giggls@ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
