[OSM-newbies] Question about rivers...

[Eric Ladner]

What's a good judge of when to stop mapping actual riverbanks (using
waterway=riverbank and waterway=river down the middle) and use only
the single waterway=river line?

My knee jerk reaction would be to stop using riverbanks at the point
where the river basically becomes unnavigable by most boats.  Sound
reasonable?

Anybody have a link to a river system that's properly tagged and plotted?

Thanks,

Eric Ladner

P.S.  Permalink to the area I'm working around:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.3966&lon=-88.5825&zoom=13&layers=B00FTFTT
It's a work in progress with some major overhaul on both of the
rivers, but some of the side stuff has been done already.