SYNOPSIS
osmcoastline [OPTIONS] --output=OUTPUT-DB INPUT-FILE
DESCRIPTION
osmcoastline extracts the coastline data from the INPUT-FILE, ususally a planet file (or the output of the osmcoastline_filter program, see below) and assembles all the pieces into polygons for use in map renderers etc.
The output is written to the Spatialite database OUTPUT-DB. Depending on the options it will contains the coastlines in different formats. See the description of the options below and the README.md for details.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
Display usage information.
- -b, --bbox-overlap=OVERLAP
-
Polygons that are too large are split into two halves (recursively if
need be).
Where the polygons touch the OVERLAP is added, because two polygons just
touching often lead to rendering problems.
The value is given in the units used for the projection (for WGS84
(4326) this is in degrees, for Mercator (3857) this is in meters).
If this is set too small you might get rendering artefacts where
polygons touch.
The larger you set this the larger the output polygons will be.
The best values depend on the map scale or zoom level you are preparing
the data for.
Disable the overlap by setting it to 0.
Default is 0.0001 for WGS84 and 10 for Mercator.
- -c, --close-distance=DISTANCE
-
osmcoastline assembles ways tagged natural=coastline
into rings.
Sometimes there is a gap in the coastline in the OSM data.
OSMCoastline will close this gap if it is smaller than DISTANCE.
Use 0 to disable this feature.
- -d, --debug
-
Enable debugging output.
- -f, --overwrite
-
Overwrite output file if it already exists.
- -i, --no-index
-
Do not create spatial indexes in output db.
The default is to create those indexes which makes the database larger,
but the data is faster to use.
- -l, --output-lines
-
Output coastlines as lines to database file.
- -m, --max-points=NUM
-
Set this to 0 to prevent splitting of large polygons and linestrings.
If set to any other positive integer osmcoastline will try to
split polygons/linestrings to not have more than this many points.
Depending on the overlap defined with -b and the shape of the
polygons it is sometimes not possible to get the polygons small enough.
osmcoastline will warn you on STDERR if this is the case.
Default is 1000.
- -o, --output=FILE
-
Spatialite database file for output.
This option must be set.
- -p, --output-polygons=land|water|both|none
-
Which polygons to write out (default: land).
- -r, --output-rings
-
Output rings to database file.
This is used for debugging purposes.
- -s, --srs=EPSGCODE
-
Set spatial reference system/projection.
Use 4326 for WGS84 or 3857 for "Google Mercator".
If you want to use the data for the usual tiled web maps, 3857 is
probably right.
For other uses, especially if you want to re-project to some other
projection, 4326 is probably right.
Other projections are currently not supported.
Default is 4326.
- -S, --write-segments=FILENAME
-
Write out all coastline segments to the given file.
Segments are connections between two points.
The segments are written in an internal format intended for use with the
osmcoastline_segments program only.
The file includes all segments actually in the OSM data and only those.
Gaps are (possibly) closed in a later stage of running
osmcoastline, but those closing segments will not be included.
- -v, --verbose
-
Gives you detailed information on what osmcoastline is doing,
including timing.
- -V, --version
-
Display program version and license information.
NOTES
To speed up processing you might want to run the osmcoastline_filter program first. See its man page for details.
DIAGNOSTICS
osmcoastline exits with exit code
- 0
-
if everything was okay 1
EXAMPLES
Run osmcoastline on a planet file using default options:
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osmcoastline -o coastline.db planet.osm.pbf
Running osmcoastline_filter first:
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osmcoastline_filter -o coastline.osm.pbf planet.osm.pbf osmcoastline -o coastline.db coastline.osm.pbf
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Jochen Topf <[email protected]>. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or want to report a bug, please go to http://osmcode.org/contact.html