[mkgmap-dev] Maintaining generated sea polygons

Tue May 25 13:21:49 BST 2010

aighes (h.scholland at googlemail.com) wrote:

>
> Yesterday germany had no coastline-problems ;)
>
> An easy way for correcting the errors would be the possibility to open the
> splitted osm-Files. Then you can fix the error direct (and afterwards in
> osm-database). There is no waiting for next planetfile.
>
> Now I draw in Mapsource rectangles of the flooded areas and generate an
> polygonfile via josm and osm2poly.pl. Then I separate the coastlines and
> split this file with the generated polygon-files. This file I can open in
> josm and search and fix the error.
>
> cu,
> aighes
I don't suppose you fancy fixing Scotland do you?  ;-) Someone broke  
the coastline somewhere near Edinburgh about a week ago and I'm damned  
if I can find the error.  T'would be great if someone could write a  
methodology for fixing broken coastlines.

-- 
Charlie