[talk-au] Brisbane river
Ross
info at 4x4falcon.com
Mon Jul 20 22:49:41 UTC 2015
Good.
Cheers
Ross
On 21/07/15 06:35, Phillip and Kerrie wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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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