At 2011-04-09 01:22, Andrew Harvey wrote:
I would like to map some named reaches ("straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another;") part of a major river.The river (e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.50134&lon=150.8778&zoom=15&layers=M ) currently has both a riverbank area drawn, and a way down the middle of the river. To make things even more complicated, the way running down the middle of the river has both waterway tags and administrative boundary tags. I'm thinking the ideal way to map this (reaches + river + admin boundary) would be split the way into segments for each reach, tag each segment as waterway=reach, name=Foo Reach, then collect up the river segments into a relation which contains waterway=river, name=Bar River, and just leave the riverbank area as is. Not sure what to do with the admin boundary tags though.
IANAH, but I would say splitting the existing ways is correct, but they should retain all their existing tagging. It seems that "reach" describes a part of a "river" - they are not mutually exclusive, so waterway=reach would be the wrong approach. I would just add name:reach=blah to the specific named reaches. It's probably also useful to group the segments into a relation.
I'm not sure what's best though. Any thoughts? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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