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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-02-16 00:41, Eugene Podshivalov
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        <div dir="ltr">The use of "distance" for river length distracts
          me as well.
          <div>But I'm trying to find its origin on this wiki page<br>
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              href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway"
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                    rgb(162,169,177)"><a
                      href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:distance"
                      title="Key:distance"
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                    rgb(162,169,177)">Total length of river in km</td>
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    <span class="tlid-translation translation"><span title="" class="">не
        знаю, почему это так</span></span><br>
    <span class="tlid-translation translation"><span title="" class="">это
        как, it's just like</span></span><span class="tlid-translation
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    it should be changed as well (re-written)<br>
    and other distances for lengths if there is<br>
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          <div>Cheers,</div>
          <div>Eugene</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">сб, 16 февр. 2019 г. в 02:33,
          Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com"
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at
                01:38, Eugene Podshivalov <<a
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                    <div>André, that's correct but do you happen to know
                      why "distance" was selected for route and waterway
                      length then?</div>
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              <div>No idea why, but rivers should certainly be shown
                with a length.</div>
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              <div>EG The Nile rises in Lake Victoria & travels to
                the Mediterranean with a length of ~6695km (depending on
                reference used), but the distance between Kampala, on
                the north shore of Lave Victoria & Cairo is only
                3300km.</div>
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              <div>OSM shows it fairly accurately as 6853km but as a
                distance, when it should clearly be a length - may be a
                re-write required?</div>
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              <div>Thanks
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                <div>Graeme</div>
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