[OSM-newbies] Question about rivers...

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Another way to think about it is to look for where the river basically
becomes parallel sided and use waterway=river (linear feature) from that
point to denote a feature with consistent width.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Eric Ladner
>Sent: 08 July 2008 4:43 PM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-newbies] Question about rivers...
>
>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.
>
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