[mkgmap-dev] Sea generation

Fri Nov 5 08:03:30 GMT 2010

On 11/04/2010 11:04 PM, WanMil wrote:

> Would it be helpful if we copy the Mapnik behaviour of well defined 
> coastlines? One could define one separate file that contains all 
> coastline data

I would not include this into mkgmap. Don't mix program development with
data.

> Has anyone extracted coastline data for the whole world/europe/asia/...? 
> How many data is this?

I did it for the German coast (Baltic Sea, North Sea) with some of the
neighbouring countries (Denmark, Poland, Netherlands). The osm.bz2 file
is 113KB.