# osmcoastline mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für osmcoastline in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:osmcoastline
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install osmcoastline
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install osmcoastline
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: osmcoastline from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:osmcoastline
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.5.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Extracts coastline data from OpenStreetMap planet file
- **Homepage:** <https://osmcode.org/osmcoastline/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/osmcode/osmcoastline>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-25T13:38:00+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- osmcoastline (Alias)
- osmcoastline_filter (Alias)
- osmcoastline_readmeta (Alias)
- osmcoastline_segments (Alias)
- osmcoastline_ways (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.5.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

osmcoastline extracts OpenStreetMap coastline ways from planet-scale input and assembles them into land and water polygons for renderers and data users. It handles one of OSM's oddest global data problems: editable coastline segments must become valid, usable polygons.

### Projektgeschichte

Jochen Topf announced the work on March 7, 2012, while explaining the long-standing problem of turning `natural=coastline` ways into proper polygons. The same day, the osmcode/osmcoastline GitHub repository was created.

The blog post frames osmcoastline as a rewrite of an older coastcheck-based workflow that had become slow and difficult to maintain. The new implementation used Osmium to scan OSM files, assemble coastline rings, produce error information, and leave room for output options such as land polygons, water polygons, clipping, and splitting.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

OpenStreetMapData's coastline-processing page says OSMCoastline was developed specifically to assemble coastline data, apply fixes where needed, and create the published coastline datasets on that site. It also feeds detected coastline errors onward to Geofabrik's OSM Inspector so mappers can correct source data.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The man page describes `osmcoastline` as reading an input file, usually a planet file or filtered output, and writing coastline polygons to a Spatialite database. Options control overlap, gap-closing distance, warning behavior, output formats, and projection-specific details.

The repository also ships helper commands such as `osmcoastline_filter`; the README says the filter can reduce a planet file to the nodes and ways needed for coastline assembly, producing a file less than one percent of the original planet size.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

osmcoastline is a compact example of domain-specific packaging: it depends on OSM parsing, geometry libraries, Spatialite, GDAL, GEOS, zlib, and optional PBF compression details, but exposes a focused CLI for one global map-production job.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012-03-07: Jochen Topf publishes the OSM Coastlines blog post and releases the osmcoastline code.
- The project grows around libosmium, protozero, GDAL, GEOS, SQLite/Spatialite, and PBF support.
- OpenStreetMapData uses OSMCoastline for published coastline processing and error reporting.

### Related projects

- libosmium provides OSM file handling; OpenStreetMapData publishes derived coastline datasets; Geofabrik OSM Inspector surfaces coastline errors; renderers consume the assembled land and water polygons.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/osmcode/osmcoastline>
- <https://blog.jochentopf.com/2012-03-07-osm-coastlines.html>
- <https://docs.osmcode.org/osmcoastline/master/osmcoastline.html>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/osmcoastline>
- <https://github.com/osmcode/osmcoastline>
- <https://osmcode.org/osmcoastline/>
- <https://osmdata.openstreetmap.de/processing/coastline.html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für osmcoastline wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.


## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - osmcoastline - 2.4.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: osmcoastline from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Extract coastline data from OpenStreetMap planet file | https://osmcode.org/osmcoastline/
- Ubuntu apt - osmcoastline - 2.4.0-2build4: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: osmcoastline from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Extract coastline data from OpenStreetMap planet file | https://osmcode.org/osmcoastline/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/osmcoastline.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/osmcoastline.yml)


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