Hi Glenn We can do away with the relation and make sure waterway=riverbank is placed everywhere. But this has seemed always strange to me: for canals as well? A canal is not a river, and the wiki on waterway=riverbank says: "This describes the tagging scheme for large rivers", linking to the Wikipedia page for river: "A river is a natural flowing watercourse ..."
waterway=riverbank is less relation-fiddling and I'm starting to see the advantages of that as well. On donderdag 28 juli 2016 21:19 Glenn Plas wrote: > Hey Ruben, > > >> I do not see the merit of natural=water scheme at all on a river or a > >> canal. It's a waterway. imho, there is nothing to migrate to. > >> Unless I seriously missed something, the way to do it is the way (not > >> the area) is the logical waterway. > > > > Both have disadvantages. They are equally hard to maintain. > > I disagree here. Riverbank is easy to maintain for me atleast, they > should not be included in any relationship either, they should not be > named and they do make sense on rivers where the waterlevel (and/or > tides) influence the shape. [1] > > The logical riverway still belongs in the the 'waterway tagging scheme' > if we can call it like that. > > natural=water isn't meant for rivers. I don't see where this idea is > coming from at the moment. It's used on lakes, still water etc but on a > river it's not suited. [2] The wiki doesn't mention that usage either. > > So the logical river would be waterway=river , and that is the part you > would put in a waterway relation, the riverbank not. > > Keep things simple I would suggest. Hence the suggestion to delete the > relation, probably have to review the tags first so we don't throw away > good information. > > Now, I'm about to put the kids to bed so I really just scanned the wiki > but I've done quite some research on waterway logic, hence why I'm quite > convinced. But always open to suggestions. > > Glenn > > > > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank > [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dwater -- Dit bericht is ondertekend met OpenPGP.
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