Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-09-02 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-09-02 10:50, Warin wrote: > On 29/08/18 01:46, Colin Smale wrote: > > On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: > whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to > achieve. > OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't > know why

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-09-02 Thread Warin
On 29/08/18 01:46, Colin Smale wrote: On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to achieve. OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't know why I bother," like I am now, where would we be?

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-29 Thread Mike Evans
Hi David On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:09:58 + "David Groom" wrote: > >>There is no consensus. > >> > >>Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which > >>is > >>tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. > >> > >>Reasons for this > >> > >>1) Ask any one who

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-29 Thread David Groom
-- Original Message -- From: "Mike Evans" To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Cc: "David Groom" Sent: 28/08/2018 19:22:16 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:47 + "David Groom" wrote: There is no consensus.

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Mike Evans
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:47 + "David Groom" wrote: > There is no consensus. > > Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which is > tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. > > Reasons for this > > 1) Ask any one who lives in say central London "do

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: > whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to > achieve. OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't know why I bother," like I am now, where would we

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread David Groom
Colin whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to achieve. David -- Original Message -- From: "Colin Smale" To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: 28/08/2018 12:23:33 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers David, do you consider tha

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
David, do you consider that it would be advantageous to have consensus on this matter, and a consistent tagging paradigm in OSM? I am not prejudging what that consensus position might be, just sounding out if there is any point in having the discussion in the first place. On 2018-08-28 13:09,

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread David Groom
There is no consensus. Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which is tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. Reasons for this 1) Ask any one who lives in say central London "do you live on the coast" or do you live beside a river", most would I'm

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Tony Shield
I'm with Colin on this. My experience of sailing and reading Admiralty charts is that the coastline is the High Water line.  Yes it looks inconvenient or unnatural - but tidal area as implied by coastline is so important to small boat users. The River Dart Way: 194211894 waterway=