[talk-au] Brisbane river

[Phillip and Kerrie]

Thank you Ross for the pointer about my tool chain.

I have now found a much more comprehensive import tool set and am able to
produce the picture that I am looking for.

On 20 July 2015 at 16:26, Phillip and Kerrie <philkez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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