On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:33:48PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Christoph Hormann wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 October 2014, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > > Furthermore the outer edge of a bay, i.e. the edge that is not > > > > coastline is usually not well defined and would require an > > > > arbitrary cutoff. > > > > > > Yes, cutoff is unfortunately quite arbitrary. But node placement is > > > completely arbitrary - and lacks important information. > > > > I don't see what information is missing and cannot be easily determined > > automatically with a properly placed node that is contained in an > > area - except for the outer edge of course, which is usually > > ill-defined though as you said yourself. > > Any data consumer could quite easily, if not trivially, detect that > fuzzy edge in this case if it cares about it in the first place (I've > have some trouble in figuring out a sensible use case in which it would > make a difference to know where the fuzzy border of a bays is). > > Besides, we really need to deal with object that have fuzzy borders > already, e.g., some of the natural=wetland object come to my mind as an > example. I quickly browsed through the related pages and discussions, for > some strange reason the fuzzy border issue seems to not have been raised > there at all? I suppose it's currently left solely to mappers > discretion where to put the the edges.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Fuzzy http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_proposals_regarding_landuse,_geology,_geography_and_vegetation (my early draft for the purpose of getting some overview over similar issues) Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
