Hi David On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:09:58 +0000 "David Groom" <revi...@pacific-rim.net> wrote:
> >>There is no consensus. > >> > >>Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which > >>is > >>tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. > >> > >>Reasons for this > >> > >>1) Ask any one who lives in say central London "do you live on the > >>coast" or do you live beside a river", most would I'm sure say beside > >>a > >>river, so surely our data should reflect that. I think this probably > >>is > >>what you mean by "seems more natural" > >Well if they're in Central London then it is an estuary at that point > >so they'd be incorrect. Hence the expression "estuary English", and not > >"river English". > Both the Oxford and Cambridge Dictionaries define as estuary as part of > a river. Dictionaries are written for writers and are not necessarily useful as a mapping resource. There's more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary > > > >Perhaps "A History of the Foreshore and the Law Relating Thereto", > >published 1888 would be a useful reference. > >https://archive.org/details/ahistoryforesho00hallgoog > > > > > >> > >>2) In part because the converse is not true, we bound large non tidal > >>water areas as coastline > >Examples? > > > Baltic , Caspian & Black Seas > All are tidal to small extent, see: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2016.00046/full But none of this helps us draw an arbitrary line across a river/estuary/tidal/non-tidal water body. Regards Mike -- GPG Key fingerprint = 0D8A 33A8 F7F8 733C 7519 2A56 DB8F 7CF1 C67B BC0F _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb