On Sunday 26 April 2015, Tobias Knerr wrote: > > 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. > > Sure, but the page currently states that the waterway=river "must" be > placed that way. It could agree with the text if it said "Preferably, > the way should be drawn along the thalweg or the deepest points of > the riverbed". That is, it should be a goal, not a requirement for > mapping the river at all.
The formulation there was somewhat ambiguous. I think it was meant to indicate a way waterway=river is required to be mapped within the waterway=riverbank polygon but not that its location must be exact. I clarified this in the wiki. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
