Re: [Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-27 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-02-27 10:04, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote: > 27 Feb 2020, 09:55 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: > >> If it was semantically important, we should be scanning for and flagging up >> waterways with out-of-order ways.The fact that we are not, shows that the >> ordering of the ways is not

Re: [Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-27 Thread Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging
27 Feb 2020, 09:55 by colin.sm...@xs4all.nl: > > If it was semantically important, we should be scanning for and flagging up > waterways with out-of-order ways.> The fact that we are not, shows that the > ordering of the ways is not essential for a correct geometrical >

Re: [Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-27 Thread Colin Smale
On 2020-02-27 01:47, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > When you make or sort a relation of type=waterway, do you check if the > source or mouth of the river is first on the list of ways? > > Another user just suggested that the spring/source of the waterway > should start the list, then the mouth of the

Re: [Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-26 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
JOSM doesn't change seem to change the order when it sorts, if the relation is already listed "backwards" but in an ordered string. It also won't sort a waterway relation which includes sidestream members, or gaps. But if you sort an unsorted waterway and each of the ways can be put into one

Re: [Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-26 Thread Andrew Davidson
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020, 13:48 Joseph Eisenberg, wrote: > When you make or sort a relation of type=waterway, do you check if the > source or mouth of the river is first on the list of ways? > As the ways point in the direction of flow I would have said that source to sink was the natural sorting

[Tagging] Sorting waterway relations?

2020-02-26 Thread Joseph Eisenberg
When you make or sort a relation of type=waterway, do you check if the source or mouth of the river is first on the list of ways? Another user just suggested that the spring/source of the waterway should start the list, then the mouth of the river at the ocean (or where it empties into a larger