On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Groom <[email protected]> wrote: > Alternatively they may not have realised they were > supposed to map the waterway so its direction was the same as the river > flow.
Almost certainly this. There's not even anything on the main waterway page; you have to go to one of the subpages to see the direction convention. > The mapping of many features added to OSM are over time refined and > improved, in this way the crowd makes a better map. You have noted the > direction of the ways ware wrong, and are thus able to correct them and > improve the OSM data. I only noticed most of them because I went looking for examples. Otherwise I would have had no way of realizing the direction didn't match the wiki. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
