Afternoon all,
Access to Bing imagery has vastly increased the quality of information
available for landuse in the UAE. There are major tracts of saltmarsh
and mangrove wetland, e.g. here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=24.8103&lon=54.7543&zoom=13&layers=M
(in Mapnik the coastline hasn't updated so it looks like solid land,
but check out Osmarender or Bing to see a better picture).
It would be nice to be able to map the tidal waterways that run in
between the mangroves and saltmarshes - particularly the manmade ones
that have been explicitly cleared to allow marine vessels.
Unfortunately I can't see any way of tagging a waterway that does not
imply freshwater. Ideally we'd have a waterway=tidal_creek or
something like that but this doesn't seem to be in use at all.
waterway=canal might, at a stretch, work for the manmade channels, but
not for the natural ones.
Finally, is there a way of tagging saltwater lakes (i.e. lagoons)?
natural=water, water=saltwater?
Any suggestions?
--
Charlie
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