On Sunday 10 May 2015, Jochen Topf wrote: > Hi! > > For about 10 days the coastline has been broken and no updates have > been going through. This is largely due to some broken mapping in > North America where coastlines overlap and some features have been > tagged both as coastline and waterways, which doesn't make any sense > at all.
Note overlaps between waterway=riverbank areas and the coastline are generally not an issue and are also not really that uncommon (classic and long term case for that it the Elbe in northern Germany) - they of course complicate things a bit and can be misleading for mappers. > Please, everybody: If you are doing something with the coastlines, > take extra care. Coastlines are fragile, have special taggging rules > unlike anything else in OSM and if you break them in only one place, > chances are coastlines updates for the whole world will stop! Indeed. And if you have a complex coastline situation like when you need to add or remove the coastline tag to/from a larger water area and have not done something like this before just leave the coastline mapping as it is and add a fixme tag indicating what should be changed and place a note asking for help doing that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
