On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stefan Brandle <[email protected]>wrote:
> I suspect that reading all available documentation might be a good > start. :-) > It might, but it also might get you bogged down too. Two years into this myself, I'm still uncovering corners of "all available" that I didn't know were there :-) I definitely endorse jumping in and trying out the parts you can figure out (as it sounds like you're doing), while continuing to read/learn in parallel. For ponds in particular: one part of OSM I did not understand at first was that areas are the same as ways; they just connect beginning to end. So to draw a pond, make a way around the edge of the water (presumably tracing aerial photos) and connect the last node to the first node. The only thing that distinguishes an oval area from an oval track is the tagging. Tag the pond as natural=water, and you are done. Be sure to keep the wiki Map_features page handy. - Alan
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