There's the documened natural=riverbed. Yves
Le 8 septembre 2018 02:07:48 GMT+02:00, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> a écrit : >Humm >I would tend to just mark the river .. not the bank at all. But.. > >However the river bank would be seasonal? >So possibly a seasonal tagging would suit? > >so one area with seasonal=summer;autumn;winter (or dry_season) >and another area with seasonal=spring (or wet_season) > > > >On 08/09/18 09:09, Dave Swarthout wrote: >> > What should we be marking as the "riverbank" - where the water is >> visible "now", or the defined limits of where it spreads out to in >the >> wet season? >> >> This is an excellent question that applies to Alaska's braided rivers > >> as well. As they are without man-made flood controls or artificial >> embankments, they run full in the spring, sometimes tearing out trees > >> and even small islands as they go, but shrink to a trickle in the >> summer and winter. Customarily, we map the maximum extent of the >river >> as riverbank but that leaves a very mistaken impression when one >> observes such rivers in the summer. >> >> On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 5:56 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick >> <graemefi...@gmail.com <mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sat, 8 Sep 2018 at 05:40, Richard <ricoz....@gmail.com >> <mailto:ricoz....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> everything can be handled with waterway=riverbanks at least >as >> well. >> >> Question regarding riverbanks & where they should be marked, >thanks? >> >> Was doing some HOT mapping a little while back in Nepal & the >area >> I was working on was surrounding a river - sorry, I can't >remember >> the exact location? >> >> The imagery I was working of had apparently been taken during the >> dry season as the actual river channel with water in it was ~30 - >> 50 m's wide. But the wet season river (or possibly flood?) >channel >> was very obviously ~500 - 700 m's wide. >> >> What should we be marking as the "riverbank" - where the water is >> visible "now", or the defined limits of where it spreads out to >in >> the wet season? >> >> Thanks >> >> Graeme >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org> >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Swarthout >> Homer, Alaska >> Chiang Mai, Thailand >> Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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