[Tagging] Beaches

[John Smith]

On 9 April 2010 10:34, Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> For everyone who has never seen the sea ....

Seeing the sea isn't the problem, the sea is only a few blocks from here.

> Commonly a sandy beach consists of a dry part with loose sand above the high
> tide line and a wet part with compact sand between the low and high tide
> lines. What the wiki is trying to say, is that you should map the dry part.

That isn't how I interpreted what the wiki says.

Although that brings up another issue about how coastlines are legally
defined as being at the mean low tide mark:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters#Baseline