I know of least one 46006 that I would consider a river (Tussahaw creek) , but doesn't have river in the name, but as bad as other NHD data I've seen is, this little problem will be small.
upstream On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Paul Norman <[email protected]> wrote: > If there are no objections to the retagging part I'll proceed with retagging > FCodes 46003 and 46006 as documented on > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pnorman/NHDCleanup > > I will not be joining waterways at this time. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paul Norman [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 6:52 PM >> To: 'Richard Welty'; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Proposed cleanup: NHD "rivers" >> >> This is the view I subscribe to too. An example of two ways I would want >> to join would be http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/68711710 and >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/68710322 >> These differ only in nhd:com_id and they're both really short ways. >> >> In any case, I'd like to make it clear that there are two separate >> parts. >> The retagging of the ways, and the joining of them. The first one is a >> serious issue, visible out to z8 in the rendering and hopefully >> uncontroversial to change. The second one is a less important issue that >> it seems more debate is required on. >> >> For the retagging, I've done up a table at >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Pnorman/NHDCleanup which >> explains the changes I'm proposing. I should of thought of a table >> earlier >> >> Also, I need to empathize that any data edited by users since the >> imports won't be touched without manual review. >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Richard Welty [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 5:38 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Proposed cleanup: NHD "rivers" >> > >> > On 3/20/11 8:16 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: >> > > On 3/20/2011 8:13 PM, Richard Welty wrote: >> > >> d suggest using relations to group ways that are parts of named >> > >> rivers rather than trying to combine the ways. >> > > >> > > If the only difference between the ways is that NHD assigns a >> > > different ID number to them, not combining them seems silly. >> > if the ids are consistent from one release to the next and there is >> > any notion of doing an update later, then combining them destroys >> > useful information. >> > >> > richard >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-us mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

