Who Sucked the Irish Sea Dry (Landmark)

[davidg666]

OK, I've just taken a turn around the Irish coast (nice time of night for a cruise!).

I've locked all the sea landmark where I can, but I did not have permission for these ones:
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That list does come from a complete circumnavigation, so it's no surprise that I can't touch some of them, but they are all still unlocked.

Thanks Iain. I locked one of the ones you provided a link to, and Arthur seems to have got one of the others. I don't have permission to modify any of the others - Waze must consider them to be outside Irish territory, so I expect they would need somebody to drive over them (somehow) or have AM rights overlapping them to lock them. Waze's ideas of country borders seems a bit fuzzy at best - I don't see why they can't have coastal borders extending a lot further out to sea in cases (like this) where there's just a big ocean/

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[davidg666]

:lol: "The waters came together again" That east wind has dissipated!

The Irish Sea landmark has been reinstated. Just hope we haven't infringed on territorial limits and fishing rights

Excellent! Thanks Arthur; I do rather like the look of most landmarks on the map. Having no visible coastline for the last week or so was a little weird

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[Timbones]

I've sent the official coastline (high-water level) for GB to Waze in the (vain) hope they'll import it into the map.

If anyone can find a rights-free outline of Ireland, let me know...

[davidg666]

If anyone can find a rights-free outline of Ireland, let me know...

From the point of view of editing permissions, even a blob drawn in the rough shape of the country that's about 30km bigger than the actual coastline would do.

I'll happily draw one on the back of an envelope from memory, with my eyes closed, with a crayon, and make it available to Waze for free

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[iainhouse]

I spent hours a few months ago getting the south edge of Galway bay just right; I'd hate to have lost that (although the newer satellite images show that it's all about 20m off to one side. Oh well)

Forgot to mention: do you know that landmarks now have a handle in the centre that you can use to drag the entire landmark? Might take a bit of fiddling (and it might be slow if the landmark has a lot of nodes), but you can probably fix that.

[davidg666]

I spent hours a few months ago getting the south edge of Galway bay just right; I'd hate to have lost that (although the newer satellite images show that it's all about 20m off to one side. Oh well)

Forgot to mention: do you know that landmarks now have a handle in the centre that you can use to drag the entire landmark? Might take a bit of fiddling (and it might be slow if the landmark has a lot of nodes), but you can probably fix that.

Good point - I noticed that showing up recently; didn't think of applying it to this landmark though!

thanks,

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[davidg666]

Forgot to mention: do you know that landmarks now have a handle in the centre that you can use to drag the entire landmark? Might take a bit of fiddling (and it might be slow if the landmark has a lot of nodes), but you can probably fix that.

Good point - I noticed that showing up recently; didn't think of applying it to this landmark though!

Oof; that was fiddly - the drag handle is in the middle of the bay, which is quite large - so when you zoom in far enough to drag the handle, there are no visible points of reference, so it's hard to work out how far to drag it.

Oh, and it looks like some parts of the bay were drawn with the old satellite images, and some with the new ones, so the quay outlines in some villages are right, and some are wrong. Plenty more tweaking remains for a rainy day...

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[iainhouse]

the drag handle is in the middle of the bay, which is quite large - so when you zoom in far enough to drag the handle, there are no visible points of reference, so it's hard to work out how far to drag it

That's exactly why I thought it would be fiddly!

[CTCNetwork]

Hi,

Openstreetmap have a world coast line map I think. They use it in Navdroid and it is listed as a seperate map to download should you want it.

Des. . .

[davidg666]

Hi Des,

Openstreetmap have a world coast line map I think. They use it in Navdroid and it is listed as a seperate map to download should you want it.

Presumably it's protected by Openstreetmap's copyright conditions and we can't use it directly (except perhaps as a reference?) for Waze sea/ocean landmark creation?

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