[mkgmap-dev] Generate coastline - can we keep the coastline way?

Wed Mar 24 14:45:48 GMT 2010

Toby Speight (T.M.Speight.90 at cantab.net) wrote:

> When --generate-coastline=multipolygon fails, I'm left with a map that
> has no distinction between land and sea.  However, if I don't
> use --generate-coastline, I at least get a line (from my style/lines).
> Is there any good reason why generating coastline prevents the line
> rules from being applied to the coastline ways?
>
> It's not a problem when I actually get sea tiles, but it's a serious
> nuisance when small islands have completely disappeared!

Seconded.  It would be visually useful to retain the coastline even  
when --generate-coastline works fine, as it's nice to see a solid line  
twixt land and sea.

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Charlie