...And this may be different to the limit of government jurisdiction. In the UK, local authorities' jurisdiction goes (normally) to MLWS (mean low water - spring tides), which is beyond the MHWS coastline. Why am I saying this? Please don't use the same way in both the coastline and the admin boundary, unless you are absolutely sure they coincide by definition (not by coincidence).
//colin On 2015-05-11 19:39, Malcolm Herring wrote: > On 11/05/2015 18:01, pmailkeey . wrote: > >> Where should the coastline be ? HWM, LWM or MW. What about islands that only >> appear at low tide ! > > The most common definition is mean high water - spring tides (MHWS) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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