OpenStreetMap
Weird Parallel E/W Lines
Sett inn af bhietsch 27. ágúst 2020 á English. Síðast uppfært 29. ágúst 2020.Anyone know what the deal with these lines is? They seem to run between the prime meridian and the anti-meridian, but only render at zoom level of 4. My first thought was that they may have something to do with the arctic circle, but they look to be a degree or two south of it.
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Athugasemd eftir highflyer74 sett inn 27. ágúst 2020 kl. 20:38
Not visible here though… I will check on a different computer tomorrow.
Athugasemd eftir highflyer74 sett inn 28. ágúst 2020 kl. 05:30
Check done, no signs of lines.
Athugasemd eftir imagico sett inn 28. ágúst 2020 kl. 09:38
These lines - as can be derived from where they are located - result from boundary line segments (here from admin_level 2 boundary relations) crossing the 180 degree meridian. Since practically almost all geodata processing software by default interprets line segments as if geographic coordinates were cartesian coordinates and therefore assumes any such segment no matter how short it actually is to wrap around the whole earth along the parallel you need to avoid such segments by splitting any geometry crossing the 180 degree meridian along the meridian. If a mapper not aware of this carelessly moves a node across the 180 degree meridian the result is like what you point out (in this case probably fixed in osm.org/changeset/88746336)