Hi! The Antarctica coastline currently existing in OSM was imported years ago from rather bad and outdated data. And the huge shelf-ice areas are mostly missing. There is much better data available that can be used to replace the old data. Christoph Hormann and I are planning an import that will improve this situation greatly.
We are also planning to do some changes to the tagging scheme for Antarctica which, among other changes, will move the coastline to the outside of the shelf-ice. Our tagging is described at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Tagging More information about this import is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Antarctica/Import_2013 To not spread out the discussion in too many places, we ask you to please discuss this on the relevant talk pages on the wiki or on the imports mailing list (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports). Jochen -- Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org http://www.remote.org/jochen/ +49-721-388298 _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
