#2 The coastlines...

[Sakari A. Maaranen]

Rendering the OSM coastlines is a slight challenge for many GIS tools. OSM2PostGIS is no exception. Find the best solution for preparing the coastline data into more easily rendered polygons, etc.

[Sakari A. Maaranen]

The Util class has now methods for calculating the area of spherical polygons that is also aware of the winding direction of the polygon edges (clockwise or counter-clockwise). These may also help with the coastlines because their winding direction determines which side is land and which is water.