[Tagging] Can OSM become a geospacial database?

Graeme Fitzpatrick graemefitz1 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 21:39:33 UTC 2018


On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 04:04, Eugene Podshivalov <yaugenka at gmail.com> wrote:

> if you cannot perform such simple tasks with it like getting a list of for
> example lakes within a specific country? You search for water=lake but you
> get results which differ a lot from what is locally called a "lake".
>

When you say "you get results which differ a lot from what is locally
called a "lake".", do you mean what is called a lake in Russia,
or what is called a lake in the country you are searching in?

Because, if you search for "lake" in Australia, you will find a lot of
references to salt lakes, possibly dry, that may only actually have water
in them *very* rarely,
or in some cases, never in human memory! But they are still called lakes,
the same as the "normal" inland bodies of water.

Thanks

Graeme
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