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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:nowrap;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Eugene Alvin Villar</span>  wrote:</span><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">It seems some mappers go to the extreme opposite and map the coastline across the mouth of an estuary that is clearly part of the ocean:</span> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Yes, they do this because it's fast and they may have other more pressing issues to deal with at the moment. It's also non-controversial in the sense that it's not actually "wrong", it's merely inaccurate. Someone with more time or motivation can come in later to do it more thoroughly.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:40 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seav80@gmail.com" target="_blank">seav80@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">the coastline should represent the limit of the sea, in case of a river flowing in, people look at the level of salt in the water and whether the level of the river is influenced by tides (afaik)<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">It seems some mappers go to the extreme opposite and map the coastline across the mouth of an estuary that is clearly part of the ocean:<br><br><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/186710973" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/186710973</a><br><br></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Dave Swarthout<br>Homer, Alaska<br>Chiang Mai, Thailand<br>Travel Blog at <a href="http://dswarthout.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://dswarthout.blogspot.com</a></div></div>
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