<div><div dir="auto">I agree that a node is best, because it is debatable where a river bend starts and ends, but it is easy to put a node at the center.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To confirm, this name is for the section of river, not for the semi-circle of land inside of the bend?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I agree that a separate tag is needed, as you said, because this is not the name of a river. It’s analogous to a bay in a lake or sea.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Did you try searching taginfo? Has anyone been using waterway=bend or natural=bend, or something similar?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Joseph</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 7:00 PM Dave Swarthout <<a href="mailto:daveswarthout@gmail.com">daveswarthout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
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<p>I'm working on adding islands and other features in the Tanana River in Alaska. There are many named sloughs (side channels), islands and in some areas curves or bends that have a name. In my example there is a large bend in the river that has its own name, Harper Bend. I'm looking for a way to tag that section so that the name is findable. It would be nice but not imperative if that name would display on the OSM slippy map and incidentally, on my GPSr.<br></p>
<p>If I break the river at both ends of the curve, I could add the name to the section between the breaks but that doesn't seem right because the river's name isn't changing. Another much more complicated solution would be to break the riverbank into sections and add a name to the one that encompasses the bend.</p><p>I don't know why I didn't ask here first but I raised this question on the OSM Help forum and one answer was to use a node. But if one goes that way, I reckon a new tag would be needed. So let's begin our discussion with that. Given that it's important to me to describe our mapped objects as completely as possible, I want a method to tag such a bend.<br></p>
<p>Suggestions? Opinions?</p>
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Best,</div><div>Dave</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="m_8423599685879669932gmail_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></div></div>
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