On Thursday 23 April 2015, Malcolm Herring wrote: > This idea of the linear river way being along the deepest part seems > to have been created in this thread. No such 'rule' exists, either in > practice, nor in Wiki tagging pages.
<couch> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank#Old_tagging And note this is absolutely not an unreasonable suggestion. There are many rivers with strongly varying water levels where you can during dry season well see where the deepest part of the riverbed is while the riverbank polygon mapped at the median level covers a larger area. To some extent this even applies to central European rivers like the Rhine. You can also often infer this from where the current is strongest. Nobody should feel bad about not being able to accurately place the waterway at the right location in some cases but the aim to do this where possible is a sound one. > 3. River deltas often have channels that cross between two branches > of the same river. The direction of the way is arbitrary. On the contrary - this is where direction really matters since in contrast to elsewhere you cannot determine it from the river system structure. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
