[mkgmap-dev] coastline

Fri Jan 25 13:10:04 GMT 2013

On Fri, Jan 25, GerdP wrote:

> See 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/help/options#Using_precompiled_sea
> 
> I think the process depends on the coastline data from 
> http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons
> 
> So, it makes no sense to produce data on a daily bases when the
> input data is updated less frequently (current data is from 2013-01-03.

You can create the land polygons on your own, doesn't take much
more time then downloading them. If you get libgdal correct
installed and running for use by osmcoastline.
That was the tricky part, since you cannot use the current code
from all projects, they will not work together. You need to fetch
the right releases.

  Thorsten

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