notes for clean geometry

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+# These are incomplete notes for processing NaturalEarth shapes so that polygons
+# crossing the 180° meridian don't wrap around and look weird (wrong). As usual
+# all the credit goes to Dane Springmeyer who actually figured it out.
+
+# See also: cleanGeometry.sql
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+* imported shapefile with shp2pgsql
+
+* update land set the_geom = cleanGeometry(the_geom);
+
+* dumped back out with pgsql2shp
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+* ogr reproject/clip