[talk-au] Brisbane river

[Phillip and Kerrie]

Thanks,
I will now go away and look into using a different tool set to get the data
into QGIS.

On 20 July 2015 at 15:51, Ross <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:

>  Ok.
>
> So looking at this:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1693549
>
> The riverbank multipolygon is closed otherwise this would not render.  It
> is a relation made up of 5 ways.
>
> Are you sure you are loading all the data?
>
> There are also limits on how many nodes you can have in a way, that's why
> larger lakes rivers etc are made up of numerous ways in a multipolygon
> relation.
>
> I'd suggest rather than changing the osm data you modify the data in QGIS
> and then generate the map.
>
> Cheers
> Ross
>
>
>
>
>
> On 20/07/15 13:52, Phillip and Kerrie wrote:
>
> yes I would just be closing the river bank ways.
>
>  And yes I am tagging for the renderer. I am making maps for my employer,
> in QGIS and mapinfo, and wanted to use the OMS data imported as lines and
> polygons as part of my background.
>
>  For this to work with the QGIS importer the river banks need to be
> closed so as to become polygons.
>
>  Phillip Shelton
>
> On 20 July 2015 at 13:40, Ross <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
>
>>  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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