[Tagging] Waterway length

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 01:38, Eugene Podshivalov <yaugenka at gmail.com> wrote:

> André, that's correct but do you happen to know why "distance" was
> selected for route and waterway length then?
>

No idea why, but rivers should certainly be shown with a length.

EG The Nile rises in Lake Victoria & travels to the Mediterranean with a
length of ~6695km (depending on reference used), but the distance between
Kampala, on the north shore of Lave Victoria & Cairo is only 3300km.

OSM shows it fairly accurately as 6853km but as a distance, when it should
clearly be a length - may be a re-write required?

Thanks

Graeme
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