[Potlatch-dev] [OpenStreetMap] #4510: canal/river polygon is not a lake

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#4510: canal/river polygon is not a lake
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 Reporter:  ligfietser  |       Owner:  potlatch-dev@…                
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new                           
 Priority:  major       |   Milestone:                                
Component:  potlatch2   |     Version:                                
 Keywords:              |  
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 Bodies of water (canals, rivers, streams) are often tagged as linear
 waterways but they should be rendered as natural=water or
 waterway=riverbank

 This mistake is made by mappers who are mislead by the presets in Potlatch
 2, because when a polygon is tagged with natural=water, the presets show
 this as a lake. It is understandable that they want to improve this fault
 and choose "canal" or "river" element in the menu, not knowing this will
 be tagged as waterway=canal or waterway=river which should be a linear
 element only.

 See
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.03506&lon=5.12576&zoom=15&layers=M

 For example here a mapper (revision 5) tried to "fix an error"
 http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/68194392/history

 Can this be changed in the presets? The term "Lake" could be replaced by
 "water"?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/4510>
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