[talk-au] Lake Illawarra

Ken Bosward kbosward at bosward.net
Sun Jul 18 14:29:57 BST 2010


I'm wondering how to fix up Lake Illawarra?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.5213&lon=150.8437&zoom=13

This does not render as blue water in the OSM Australia maps when  
viewed in MapSource or my Garmin GPS. I suspect this is because the  
inlet is not closed off; also the northern side of the inlet and part  
of the eastern edge of the lake is made up of the coastline tag  
extended inland. There is also some coastline tag on the south-western  
edge. The remainder of the lake outline appears to be only the ABS  
boundary.

Should it be the case that the coastline tag should only be on the  
actual coast (and should also be used to close off the inlet)? Then  
should the actual lake entrance and lake itself be outlined using the  
natural=water tag (going clockwise)? If so, should the lake outline be  
separate from the ABS boundary?

Ken.




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