[talk-au] Direction of flow, rivers and streams

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:39 PM, John Henderson <snowgum at gmx.com> wrote:
> I note the wiki says that "Direction of the way should be downstream."
>
> Most streams I look at on OSM have been drawn uphill, and I've been
> reversing the direction of ones I notice as wrong.  Indeed, I find it more
> natural to draw streams that way myself, and then reverse them.

Yep, the only way to draw them facing downstream is to start at the
source, and that's pretty hard. I usually find them where they join
another river, so am probably contributing to the backward mapping.

Anyone know of any applications that use the direction of streams?

Steve