I take no credit for this, but the world's coastline is now completely clear (well very very nearly clear anyway). This is a huge result for the project and one for which we own thanks to a small number of dedicated volunteers who have self-organised themselves to do this job without any fanfare.
You can admire a very non-red map here: http://tile.openstreetmap.nl/coastlines.html I published also a few images on Flickr to show who had been doing most of the work.... Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3120831637/in/pool-itomedia The Americas here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/itoworld/3153798708/in/pool-itomedia Here are the currently outstanding issues (most probably only a few days old): There is a single problem in the bay area of the USA, one in Florida, one in India and one in Australia (these are probably errors that have been introduced in the past few days). There is also a false problem reported for an island that crosses +180 degrees and another for Antarctica for the same reason. There are also some reported problems, possible also false, for the some islands off the Swedish coast. This Swedish issue was discussed on this list a week or so ago but I didn't follow the discussion. It would be great if we could get to the point where the editors/API would refuse to accept updates that broken the coastline however I realise that this is something for later. For now we need to continue to 'patrol' the coastline on a regular basis and just say 'thanks folks!' Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk