[talk-au] Brisbane river

[Ross]

Guess it depends on how you go about this.

I'm guessing that you intend to create waterway=riverbank[1] 
multipolygons for the rivers and leave the waterway=river[2] in place 
marking the centerline of the river.

If so  should not be a problem.

Be careful that you are not tagging for the renderer though.  As this:

"Having the wide rivers as closed objects means that waterways import as 
polygons and that makes making good looking maps easier."

sounds very much like manipulating the data to create the output you want.

Cheers
Ross


[1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driverbank
[2]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Driver

On 20/07/15 13:17, Phillip and Kerrie wrote:
> HI,
>
> I recently downloaded the openstreetmap data for parts of South East 
> Queensland.  When I imported this data into GIS, I found that the 
> waterways were not always closed objects. Having the wide rivers as 
> closed objects means that waterways import as polygons and that makes 
> making good looking maps easier.
>
> Would I be stepping on anyone's toes if I closed the waterway ways on 
> the wider rivers in SEQ?
>
> Phillip Shelton
>
>
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