The Great Lakes have been discussed a few times on the local lists and the conclusion has been arrived at that they are best represented with natural=coastline.
It's important to remember that the direction of coastline ways matters (land on the left), and it is possible to look at a lake or island in the lake in isolation and tell where the water is and where the land is. On Feb 18, 2015 8:24 PM, Jochen Topf <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 02:48:03PM +0100, malenki wrote: > > Jochen Topf wrote: > > > > >Please do not add more (and more difficult cases like lakes on > > >islands in lakes on land) to the data, otherwise this process will get > > >more brittle than it already is. > > > > Well, that is a word. > > > > What do you think of the Great Lakes mapped (partly) both with > > coastline and MPs? > > The Great Lakes should move away from the natural=coastline mapping. I > myself have fixed this for some other lakes but didn't want to touch the > Great Lakes because they are, well, so great, and in parts mapped in a > lot of detail. I home somebody will take on that project. > > Jochen > -- > Jochen Topf [email protected] http://www.jochentopf.com/ +49-173-7019282 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
