[HOT] Waterway - Determining Flow Direction

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Mike, seeing the area might help a bit to see if anyone has any tips. 
It can be difficult to get the water flow directions right even with OCM.

My general tips are, with limited effectiveness:

zoom out a lot to see what the general watershed and terrain looks like

whitewater points in the direction of flow, meaning it trails after the 
obstruction in the waterway.

Try and follow the waterway to where it connects up to larger or 
originates from.

you can also put the opencyclemap url into the custom background in iD, 
the url is:
http://tile.opencyclemap.org/cycle/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

Then just switch to it and switch back for mapping.

Cheers
blake





On 4/5/2016 7:33 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
> When editing in JOSM I use the OpenCycleMap layer to help determine the
> direction a waterway flows (OpenCycleMap has elevation contour lines).
> However, I will be hosting a mapathon where the participants will be
> using iD. How might one determine flow direction in iD?
>
> Mike
>
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