[Tagging] ele-key for lakes / water bodies and glaciers

Elena of Valhalla elena.valhalla at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 12:58:12 BST 2010


On 8/24/10, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Elena of Valhalla wrote:
>> on the way that marks the boundary of lakes etc. I would expect the
>> ele key to tag the average height of the water surface, since that is
>> what is constant on the whole lake
>
> I live in a land of drought and flooding rains (apologies to the poet). So
> the
> level of water in various lakes and reservoirs varies from zero to maximal
> so there is no constant level and the average value is not meaningful either

but is the bottom of such lakes a flat surface with a constant
elevation? if it isn't, such a value wouldn't be meaningful as well

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