[mkgmap-dev] coastline

Wed Jan 23 12:40:27 GMT 2013

On Wed, Jan 23, RheinSkipper wrote:

> > You need to create your own precompiled coastline data from the current
> > OSM database.
> > 
> 
> 
> I see. Thank you.
> 
> But according to this
>  
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/help/options#generating_precompile
> d_sea_yourself 
> and this
>  http://openstreetmapdata.com/data/land-polygons 
> it is quite complicated to make your own precompiled coastline. So I will
> have to wait for an update of the ready made coastline.

Creating them is really simple, but getting the tools installed and
running isn't trivial :(

If you use a 64bit Linux system, I can give you a pointer to my RPMs
for this.

  Thorsten

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