On Thursday 22 February 2018, Rory McCann wrote: > > What's the best way to map rivers that flow into lakes, especially > when another river flows through it? Should they be connected? > > [...]
This has been discussed in the past occasionally and IIRC there was never full agreement on the matter. A few things that are important to consider: * The question if a river flows through a lake or if it enters a lake and ends there is not generally something that can be answered verifiably. * In well mapped areas where a lake has one large outflow and only one or a few similarily large inflows they are often connected. * In most cases with larger lakes smaller inflows are not connected. * In contrast to riverbank polygons where there is in principle a well established rule where to place the waterway (the thalweg) there is no established rule how rivers that are connected within a lake are to be placed or connected. * There is also no established rule if waterways within a lake get the name and other tags from the tributaries they connect or if they are to be without name tag. Both variants are common. * The vast majority of waterbody imports import without connectivity, even if connected data is available like in the US and Canada. Part of the problem is of course that the task of generating waterway connectivity within a water area or supplementing an incomplete connectivity are cumbersome mechanical tasks. So the ultimate question probably is if this is something editors should provide support to produce automatically or if it is something that data users should generate automatically as needed. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
