[Tagging] natural=bay as nodes are evil

Christoph Hormann chris_hormann at gmx.de
Tue Oct 28 18:11:35 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 28 October 2014, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>
> But are all bays 'mostly surrounded by land' or do some bays also
> have very wide entrypoints (in addition to two pockets to trigger
> this peninsula case)? And yes, I know it can always be solved by
> drawing area manually if the algorithm won't get it right.

The wiki defines bays as "Area of water mostly surrounded by land".  
There are quite a few cases tagged this way with only a slight dent in 
an otherwise flat coastline where - if you'd map them as an area - less 
than half of the area outline would be formed by coastline.

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