>Once the new precompiled coastline code goes in, I guess my service will become obsolete and can go away again. >But until then, feel free use the coastlines from there to work around flooding issues.

Is that really the case? Using precompiled sea for the whole world seems overkill - there are something like 56500 files in sea_20120331.zip file. All I need is the Great Britain coastline to guard against flooding.

Or have I misunderstood something?

Roger Calvert (Rogerc on OSM)