On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Filip Mleczek <[email protected]> wrote: > How to describe whether it is left or the right bank of the river? > Can I use riverbank=left/right? > Or better will be riverbank:side=left/right? > > Water mile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_mile is waterway:kilometer? > > How to describe distance from the river?
isn't this information already available when you measure the distance and position from the marker node to the way representing the river ? OSM is a geographical database, and e.g. Postgis will allow you to do certain queries based on the coordinates of the objects. There is no need to explicitly add information like distance. You can compute this from the coordinates of the objects To determine left/right bank you will also need the direction of the way representing the river. Perhaps you need a relation with the marker and the river to indicate that the marker is for that particular river. When there are many rivers/streams/... in an area this might not be obvious without an explicit relation containing both elements. So, IMHO, you should not add tags for riverbank=left/right nor waterway:kilometer. regards m _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
