Jul 21, 2020, 10:55 by [email protected]: > 2020-07-21, an, 11:20 dktue rašė: > >> Why do we need both variants and why don't we just say that >> waterway=riverbank is preferred? >> > > There is an original OpenStreetMap water schema with lakes as > natural=water, reservoirs as landuse=reservoir, riverbanks as > waterway=riverbank etc. It is a perfectly working schema. > > At some point there was a new schema proposed with a totally nerdy > motivation "to make some sql's simpler". That new schema has no > advantage in cartography, GIS or IT sense. > It has some advantages, probably not sufficient to justify it. But it actually makes "find all water areas" less troublesome. > It is totally NERDY. > What you mean by that? > >
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