[talk-au] Port Hacking (Bay v. Water)

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 23:51:22 BST 2010


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Markus_g <markus_g at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Well at the moment it isn't rendering correctly as there is no coastline
> across the entrance.
I see you've fix that now.

> Well to be tagged as natural=water it should be a body of standing water,
> such as a lake or pond.
>
> To be tagged as natural=bay it should be an area of water mostly surrounded
> or otherwise demarcated by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the
> surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often
> reducing winds. It can also be an inlet in a lake or pond.
>
> I think it should be a bay or coastline.
>
> If I am unsure I use the following source to decide, but others may have
> different reasons to tag certain ways.
>
>
> http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/
>
>
> It lists the feature code for Port Hacking as a bay.
>
> http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=78217#
>

Okay, I'm happy with bay now.

I've split off some of the other bays
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/6103886), I wasn't sure
if these should also form part of the mulitpolygon as well as outer.

Also it seems the main boundary for Port Hacking is a way traced from
Yahoo, it is close to the ABS administrative boarder, I was wondering
if we should just place the Port Hacking boarder on the ABS boundary.



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