Another way to think about it is to look for where the river basically becomes parallel sided and use waterway=river (linear feature) from that point to denote a feature with consistent width.
Cheers Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbies- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Ladner >Sent: 08 July 2008 4:43 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [OSM-newbies] Question about rivers... > >What's a good judge of when to stop mapping actual riverbanks (using >waterway=riverbank and waterway=river down the middle) and use only >the single waterway=river line? > >My knee jerk reaction would be to stop using riverbanks at the point >where the river basically becomes unnavigable by most boats. Sound >reasonable? > >Anybody have a link to a river system that's properly tagged and plotted? > >Thanks, > >Eric Ladner > >P.S. Permalink to the area I'm working around: >http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.3966&lon=- >88.5825&zoom=13&layers=B00FTFTT >It's a work in progress with some major overhaul on both of the >rivers, but some of the side stuff has been done already. > >_______________________________________________ >newbies mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.6/1539 - Release Date: 07/07/2008 >6:35 PM _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
