On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > As for the specific question, I would say that if the boundary is > defined by the natural feature, it's probably OK to use one way. For > example, http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/78384443 is legally > defined as "...to the water's edge of Little Lake Conway; thence run > southeasterly along said waters edge to a point of intersection..."
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:41 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > The example I gave of the Murray River is one explicit example where > the boundary is fixed the main flow of the southern bank of the river, > regardless what happens to the river the boundary moves with it. > > Other water ways are the same, the boundary and the waterway are the > same thing, for all intents and purposes and there is no good reason > to separate them, in fact there is many good reasons to just leave > them as is. Yes, I also think there are many good reasons to leave them as is, using a single way. But I can also think of reasons to have multiple ways. What happens if tags conflict then? For example just say the boundary actually had a name, e.g. "X Y Border", but the river also has a different name. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
