On Monday 03 August 2020, mural...@montevideo.com.uy wrote: > > i will try. > > > in my last mail i'm questioning the coastline placement in several > rivers. so, > -what are we mapping the coastline for? > -what we want from the "coastline"? > -what questions are we going to answer, or could we answer, with that > modeling of the coastline/world? (or we just draw it for the > renderer)
In general in OSM * we are not mapping for a specific purpose, we are documenting local knowledge about the verifiable geography of the world. * what individual tags mean and how they are to be used is decided by the mappers using them - but not individually on a case-by-case basis but collectively by all the mappers of OSM together. The problem we have here is that there seems to be a fairly massive discrepancy between what some local mappers in the region seem to view natural=coastline to mean and what mappers in other parts of the world have in mind there. My request for you to formulate a universal rule is meant to gauge that difference and evaluate options for a consensus. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
