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Guess it depends on how you go about this.<br>
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I'm guessing that you intend to create waterway=riverbank[1]
multipolygons for the rivers and leave the waterway=river[2] in
place marking the centerline of the river.<br>
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If so should not be a problem.<br>
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Be careful that you are not tagging for the renderer though. As
this:<br>
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"Having the wide rivers as closed objects means that waterways
import as polygons and that makes making good looking maps easier."<br>
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sounds very much like manipulating the data to create the output you
want.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Ross<br>
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[1]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank</a><br>
[2]<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/07/15 13:17, Phillip and Kerrie
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<div dir="ltr">HI,
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<div>I recently downloaded the openstreetmap data for parts of
South East Queensland. When I imported this data into GIS, I
found that the waterways were not always closed objects.
Having the wide rivers as closed objects means that waterways
import as polygons and that makes making good looking maps
easier.</div>
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<div>Would I be stepping on anyone's toes if I closed the
waterway ways on the wider rivers in SEQ? </div>
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<div>Phillip Shelton</div>
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