Firstly a disclaimer, I am mostly an armchair mapper. I am working my way around the canals of Britain, tracing the canal banks and tidying up locks etc. (I have probably seen a dozen different ways that locks have been tagged.)
I started off tagging the canal banks as waterway=canal+area=yes but it was pointed out to me by another mapper that this was confusing renderers and was pointed to the Wiki entry that suggested they should be tagged as natural=water+water=canal I therefore changed my existing tagging to reflect this and tagged my subsequent tracing this way. I have come across a few areas that have been traced by others (Mostly a long time ago and IMHO very poorly) that have been tagged as waterway=riverbank and I have changed these as I have realigned them. Today I have had a critical message from another mapper who said among other things, "Wide-ranging changes to existing tagging schemes, just because you read a Wiki page is not good enough." I have two problems with this sentence, 1/ My CHANGES have not been what I would consider wide ranging as most of the mapping has been done by myself therefore new not changed. 2/ If the reading of a Wiki page is not good enough then why bother having a wiki? Do we have to resort to the mailing list every time we want to tag something? If there is an "accepted" way to map canals can someone point me to it? -- Richard. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
