[Tagging] Waterway length

[Eugene Podshivalov]

The use of "distance" for river length distracts me as well.
But I'm trying to find its origin on this wiki page
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway
distance <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:distance> * (optional) Total
length of river in kmCheers,
Eugene

сб, 16 февр. 2019 г. в 02:33, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>:

>
> 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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