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Written by Dave Anderson on 2024-10-26 at 17:07

I also love that GIS is a fractal of cursed things.

"Okay I could use a continent outline to draw stuff on"

• open box marked "continent outlines", ten million spiders pour out*

Ah, turns out some people have spent a large part of their lives on just the question of how to make coastlines look right. Cool cool good to know how delightfully cursed

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Written by Jann Horn on 2024-10-26 at 17:16

@danderson are there separate maps for physical and legal coastlines?

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Written by Dave Anderson on 2024-10-26 at 17:24

@jann There's a million GIS systems for different purposes, so generally the answer to "is there a thing" is "yes", the question is which one makes sense for the application :)

OSM standardizes on the coastline being mean high water springs, an average springtime high-tide mark over the last 19 years. That's such a specific definition that I assume it's a somewhat widely accepted definition in cartography, but idk.

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