[OSM-newbies] Water, water everywhere?

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Ladner" <eric.ladner at gmail.com>
To: <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 3:24 PM
Subject: [OSM-newbies] Water, water everywhere?


> I've been messing with shorelines and stuff that looked terrible in
> the original TIGER import.  Something I'm doing is messing up
> osmarender, tho, causing it to do strange things.
>
> Anybody care to look at my shoreline/rivers and make comments?
>
> I'm using JOSM and generally correct the counterclockwise water issues
> (although when you're doing shoreline on an island, shouldn't it be
> the other way around?)
>
> Here's a permalink:
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.414&lon=-88.7918&zoom=13&layers=0B0FT
>
> Thanks in advance, and don't spend too much time on it, just some
> general overview comments on the work would be good.  This is the
> Newbies list, too, remember..  :D
>

Eric in general it looks reasonably OK.

The main point is that waterway=riverbank is expected to be applied to an 
area, so the long way for the outside of the riverbank should be closed by 
joining the two end nodes.  (as should the next

I'm not sure how important it is these days,  but I'd make all the inner 
ways anticlockwise.

Lastly, I'm not sure if the Mapnik layer supports this tag yet, as it was 
only officially brought into use this week, having been a proposed freature 
and in unofficial use for some time.

Regards




David

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