[Tagging] trees and waterways

[Nathan Edgars II]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:22 PM, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
> Alternatively they may not have realised they were
> supposed to map the waterway so its direction was the same as the river
> flow.

Almost certainly this. There's not even anything on the main waterway
page; you have to go to one of the subpages to see the direction
convention.

> The mapping of many features added to OSM are over time refined and
> improved, in this way the crowd makes a better map.  You have noted the
> direction of the ways ware wrong, and are thus able to correct them and
> improve the OSM data.

I only noticed most of them because I went looking for examples.
Otherwise I would have had no way of realizing the direction didn't
match the wiki.