[OSM-newbies] Parallel river bank

[Keith Ng]

Opening the area in JOSM shows that the way is still tagged as
waterway=riverbank. I will change it and request re-render. Let you know the
results in a while.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 1:03 PM, H. S. Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:
> >> The two parallel lines tagged as river banks has been rendered
> >> as fill against some arbitrary base line.
> >>
> >>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.9242&lon=75.8643&zoom=13&layers=0B00FTF
> >>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.92781&lon=75.93121&zoom=15&layers=0B00FTF
> >>
> >> Is there something wrong in tagging?
> >
> > If you look here:
> > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank
> > it suggests the riverbank tag applies to areas. The arbitrary base
> > line you mention just seems to be an assumed link from the start of
> > the linear way to the end to turn it into a closed area.
>
> I changed tag to "drain" and filed request for render. After
> sufficient wait, found same result. Then just to counter check, I
> tagged it as "footway". Requested for render.
>
> http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=30.92941&lon=75.84962&zoom=17&layers=0B00FTF
>
> suggest that footway has been rendered. But area fill is still there.
> Is it possible some old data is being taken up by renderer, but not
> visible to editor.
>
> Please help me to render this drain as drain (linear object).
>
> With regards,
>
> --
> H.S.Rai
>
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