<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 26/05/2023 1:54 pm, Josh Marshall wrote:</blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>> But I’ve also made relations for all of our local streams and creeks;</span><br><span>> go to the Newcastle area and search for Ironbark or Cottage Creek for</span><br><span>> instance… it used to just return a single hit on one small section</span><br><span>> for almost every creek. My interest here is because much of the area</span><br><span>> was uninhabitable swamp until there was a huge effort to put in some</span><br><span>> monster drains in the 1890s. And yet it will still occasionally flood</span><br><span>> and people complain about council not doing anyway…</span><br><span></span><br><span>Just asking out of interest - what's the reason for using relations? Or is it specifically for the search that you mentioned?</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>It’s recommended. From <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway</a></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">“If a waterway is named from its source to its destination, it's strongly suggested that all of its ways be placed in a</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway" title="Relation:waterway" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; color: rgb(121, 92, 178); text-decoration: none;">waterway relation</a></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">. Doing this allows</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim" title="Nominatim" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; background: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(121, 92, 178); text-decoration: none;">Nominatim</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.17647px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">to group the ways together and return exactly one named result per named waterway that exists in OpenStreetMap.”</span></div><h2 class="section-heading collapsible-heading" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0.5em 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(234, 236, 240); border-image: none; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background: none; clear: left; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; cursor: pointer; position: relative; display: flex;"><div class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-mf-expand indicator mw-ui-icon-flush-left mw-ui-icon-small " style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.5625em; padding: 8px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1em; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-size: initial; vertical-align: middle; background: none; position: relative; display: inline-block; width: 1em; height: 1em; min-width: 1em; min-height: 1em; flex-basis: 1em; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; appearance: none; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: rgb(32, 33, 34); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; box-sizing: content-box !important;"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></h2></body></html>