On 18/10/2009, at 10:00 PM, Brendan Morley wrote:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Data.australia.gov.au/Queensland/Wetlands
>
> If nothing else, I have listed the reference documents that should  
> shed some light on what each column means.  I've only started to  
> write up the meanings
> myself.  I'll keep on updating these as I have time.

Nice work. I was going to take a look at these after I finished up the  
World Heritage Area stuff, which reminds me I should actually finish  
that.


> natural=coastline and maybe =beach (I can never remember if  
> natural=coastline is supposed to mean high water or low water,  
> doesn't matter, the wetlands
> dataset typically deliniates the intertidal area anyway)

It's high water. The following page (which I'e seen used in various  
pages suggests using water=tidal;surface=sand for the inter-tidal  
region of a beach:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover

>
> natural=water (these are the Water Bodies on the PDF maps.  Larger  
> reservoirs also seem to distinguish between full supply level and a  
> typical level)

You might be able to user water=intermittent from the same page for  
the area between "typical" and full, however for many of these typical  
will depend on when the last big rain was.

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