[Tagging] Waterway length

Eugene Podshivalov yaugenka at gmail.com
Sat Feb 16 13:46:30 UTC 2019


сб, 16 февр. 2019 г. в 16:30, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:
Why would we tag either, when software can calculate them?
Calculated value may differ from the official one and is error-prone, e.g.
when a segment is deleted by mistake or when a segment role is changed
between main and side stream.

Cheers,
Eugene

сб, 16 февр. 2019 г. в 16:30, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>:

> On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 23:31, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Why would we tag either, when software can calculate them?
>
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