I made some coastline edits a couple of days ago and have been waiting to see them show up on the Geofabrik Coastline Inspector to make sure I didn’t break anything. Since I started checking it the data timestamp has remained at 2025-03-07 02:46 (UTC). The last update time for coastline downloads on osmdata.openstreetmap.de also hasn’t changed since 2025-03-07T04:53. I thought the coastline was supposed to update daily so I’m wondering if something is clogging up the pipeline.
Looking at the internal coastline map, I’m seeing a bunch of red dots up in the arctic, but I’m not really sure what this means.
Yes, the coastline is supposed to be updated daily. Each night a virtual machine is started that processes the data. And lately this fails on some days because no virtual machine is available from the provider (Hetzner). So in this case it is not a problem with the OSM data. I didn’t have the time lately to find a better solution for the processing job, but it has become annoying enough that we need a better solution for that.
The “red dots” are the places where to coastline changed significantly from the previous processing run to the last one.
The red dots are more like flagged islet outlines, Someone spent an aweful lot of time mapping that big area or did some machine generated imports, but it looks like A Lot.
When hitting a few I get this pop up inside the big coastline blue zone
Not having refreshed is one thing, the question being, is there something missing in the standard mapping renders as of the last update… missing water e.g.?
Anyway some of the visited duplicate outlines have your name on it, some 19-20 hours ago.
Good to hear. I just wanted to check in case there was a data problem.
Ok so the red doesn’t indicate that the process is held up, it’s just informational? There’s a mention of “releasing” the data just below the map and I’ve seen mentioned in previous posts that when a coastline change is large enough it has to be manually approved. Presumably that situation would look different?
Yes I fixed these, thinking perhaps they were the problem. Apparently not the case. These were in Finland and are different than the red dots shown on the internal map which are in far northern Canada and triggered by this changeset.
