yes I would just be closing the river bank ways. And yes I am tagging for the renderer. I am making maps for my employer, in QGIS and mapinfo, and wanted to use the OMS data imported as lines and polygons as part of my background.
For this to work with the QGIS importer the river banks need to be closed so as to become polygons. Phillip Shelton On 20 July 2015 at 13:40, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Guess it depends on how you go about this. > > I'm guessing that you intend to create waterway=riverbank[1] multipolygons > for the rivers and leave the waterway=river[2] in place marking the > centerline of the river. > > If so should not be a problem. > > Be careful that you are not tagging for the renderer though. As this: > > "Having the wide rivers as closed objects means that waterways import as > polygons and that makes making good looking maps easier." > > sounds very much like manipulating the data to create the output you want. > > Cheers > Ross > > > [1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank > [2]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver > > > On 20/07/15 13:17, Phillip and Kerrie wrote: > > HI, > > I recently downloaded the openstreetmap data for parts of South East > Queensland. When I imported this data into GIS, I found that the waterways > were not always closed objects. Having the wide rivers as closed objects > means that waterways import as polygons and that makes making good looking > maps easier. > > Would I be stepping on anyone's toes if I closed the waterway ways on > the wider rivers in SEQ? > > Phillip Shelton > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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