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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/3/23 14:30, Andrew Harvey wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at
            14:05, OSM via Talk-au <<a
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              <p>Since the coastline tag is also supposed to represent
                the high water mark then I would say that they should be
                snapped together (since they then represent the same
                feature - that is, the high water mark). This would mean
                that the boundary data already in OSM from the
                government basemaps would just be their own mapping of
                the high water mark, and probably be less up to date or
                refined as our own.</p>
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          <div>Exactly. So if anything we should be actively snapping
            them.</div>
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    <p>In Victoria, from a very interesting document "<span style="left:
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        role="presentation" dir="ltr">T</span><span style="left: 40.03%;
        top: 39.33%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px);
        font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.914257);"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">HE</span><span style="left:
        46.33%; top: 39.33%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
        48.18%; top: 38.74%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*32.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">C</span><span style="left: 52.4%;
        top: 39.33%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px);
        font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02053);"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">OAST </span><span style="left:
        26.18%; top: 43.69%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.97276);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">AND
        THE</span><span style="left: 47.01%; top: 43.69%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
        48.87%; top: 43.1%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*32.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">C</span><span style="left: 53.1%;
        top: 43.69%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*25.56px);
        font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01916);"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">ADASTRE" </span><span
        style="left: 37.55%; top: 53.5%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">A</span><span style="left: 39.8%;
        top: 53.5%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px);
        font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span
        style="left: 40.72%; top: 53.5%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.849182);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Report
        for the </span><span style="left: 15.97%; top: 56.25%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*20.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.868486);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr">Victorian Environmental Assessment Council </span><span
        style="left: 40.92%; top: 61.4%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*18.00px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.872696);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">August
        2019"</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 40.92%; top: 61.4%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*18.00px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.872696);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Unfortunately
        it is a PDF download only .. and I cannot get a direct link so
        search for the above "Victoria the Coast and the Cadastre"</span></p>
    <p>I quote from here on from the document, I do recommend reading
      all of it if your interested in these 'ambulatory boundaries'. <br>
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    <p><span style="left: 16.66%; top: 68.01%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.876398);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Detail of the
        plan defining Cape Conran Coastal Park</span><span style="left:
        56.19%; top: 67.98%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*6.48px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">2</span><span style="left: 56.79%;
        top: 68.01%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px);
        font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr">.</span><br
        role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 16.66%; top: 70.11%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.864242);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The inland
        boundary follows geometrically well-defined lines, and is fixed
        in position.</span><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 16.66%; top: 71.48%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.856585);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">North of the
        inland boundary is freehold land.</span><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 16.66%; top: 73.56%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.875659);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The seaward
        boundary of the Park is ‘Low Water Mark’ and hence is
        ambulatory.</span><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 16.66%; top: 74.91%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.874666);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">South of the
        seaward boundary (</span><span style="left: 41.04%; top: 74.91%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858166);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">i.e.</span><span
        style="left: 43.26%; top: 74.91%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
        43.74%; top: 74.91%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.871726);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Bass Strait) is
        unreserved Crown land.</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 43.74%; top: 74.91%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
        scaleX(0.871726);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"></span><span
        style="left: 13.09%; top: 28.6%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.875799);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Topographic
        features may move, and ambulatory boundaries may move in
        response </span><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 30.55%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.864578);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr">under the common law doctrine of accretion. The
        doctrine is well established </span><span style="left: 13.09%;
        top: 32.5%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px);
        font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.861005);"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">internationally, but has resulted
        in very little Australian case law, so we have come to </span><span
        style="left: 13.09%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.867123);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">accept
        Surveyor Generals’ rulings as being</span><span style="left:
        48.35%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
        48.87%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.868306);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">de
        facto</span><span style="left: 55.44%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left:
        55.97%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.880859);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">expressions
        of the common law.</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 24.93%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.9084);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The</span><span
        style="left: 16.3%; top: 24.93%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span style="left: 16.8%;
        top: 24.93%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px);
        font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.870578);"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">Local Government Act 1989</span><span
        style="left: 39.71%; top: 24.93%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.873799);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">,
        section 3(3A) states:</span><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 19.14%; top: 27.16%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.855737);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">“if
        a boundary of a municipal district is described by reference to
        the seacoast </span><span style="left: 19.14%; top: 28.65%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.861198);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr">(regardless of whether it is referred to as the Sea
        shore or the waters of the sea </span><span style="left:
        19.14%; top: 30.16%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.855162);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">or a
        bay or in any other way) that boundary is to be taken to be the
        line for the </span><span style="left: 19.14%; top: 31.66%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.859095);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr">time being of the Low Water Mark on that sea coast”</span><span
        style="left: 61.98%; top: 31.66%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">.</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 41.96%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.8771);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> the
        surveyed sea boundary is defined only at that date. The sea </span><span
        style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">boundary
        is still subject to change due to gradual and imperceptible
        movement.</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 41.47%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.851926);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The
        fundamental concepts <br>
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        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.851926);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">(snip)</span></p>
    <p><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 14.28%; top: 47.37%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">1</span><span style="left: 15.31%;
        top: 47.37%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px);
        font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span
        style="left: 19.04%; top: 47.37%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.861409);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The
        legal boundary between tidal waters and adjacent land is the
        High Water </span><span style="left: 19.04%; top: 49.09%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.862665);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr">Mark (except where the sea boundary is otherwise
        defined).</span><br role="presentation">
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    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 41.47%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.851926);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">(snip)</span></p>
    <p><br role="presentation">
      <span style="left: 14.28%; top: 68.14%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr">6</span><span style="left: 15.31%;
        top: 68.14%; font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px);
        font-family: serif;" role="presentation" dir="ltr"> </span><span
        style="left: 19.04%; top: 68.14%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.864397);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">Land
        below high water mark (or other sea boundary) belongs to the
        Crown....</span><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 41.47%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.851926);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr"></span><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%;
        font-size: calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family:
        serif; transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation"
        dir="ltr"></span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">-------------------------</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">There
        are statements about; <br>
      </span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">the
        high water mark being used for both private and 'public' land</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">the
        'foreshore' being council land</span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 13.09%; top: 43.7%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.858801);" role="presentation" dir="ltr">The
        report suggest that climate change will make things difficult
        and that the government should 'make changes'. My pessimism says
        that they will make no changes until things get much worse.  <br>
      </span><span style="left: 61.98%; top: 31.66%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"></span></p>
    <p><span style="left: 61.98%; top: 31.66%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;"
        role="presentation" dir="ltr"><br>
      </span><span style="left: 55.97%; top: 34.45%; font-size:
        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.880859);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"></span></p>
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        calc(var(--scale-factor)*11.04px); font-family: serif;
        transform: scaleX(0.880859);" role="presentation" dir="ltr"><br>
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        calc(var(--scale-factor)*9.96px); font-family: serif; transform:
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