<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Hi Graeme, that’s a whopper isn’t it. It contains a hotch potch of adjacent waterbodies, but the m/polygon works well to define outer and inner boundaries (islands). Given it’s not all a ‘river’, the multipolygon tags would perhaps be more accurate if the tag water=river was removed, leaving just ‘natural=water’. This aside, I don’t know that there’s any simpler way to map the area.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The big m/polygon could perhaps be broken up into separate ones, with each defining the banks of a river, stream or separate canal complexes, and each of these could have an appropriate water tag, eg water=river, water=stream, water=canal, but in practice this would replace one m/polygon with many. This has been done in the relation on Lake Capabella a bit further west, for example. This would also be necessary if someone wanted to add a name on a subset of the big m/polygon.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given the complexity of the landuse, I imagine that there isn’t a simple alternative :(</div><div dir="ltr">Putting the relation issue aside, there’s certainly been some wonderful mapping up your way! Cheers Ian</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display: block;" class=""><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">On 23 May 2023, at 9:26 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1@gmail.com> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Have spotted a bit of a similar issue here: <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6168517#map=13/-28.0105/153.4332">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6168517#map=13/-28.0105/153.4332</a>, which has a natural river & a few "streams" running through lots of dredged out canals e.g. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/593943553#map=13/-28.0018/153.3810">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/593943553#map=13/-28.0018/153.3810</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Does this really need the relation included?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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