[talk-au] Brisbane river

[mick]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:17:36 +1000
Phillip and Kerrie <philkez at gmail.com> 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

I've been using the same OSM into Qgis into mapinfo setup to do this sort of thing but making the rivers have width in mapinfo rather than changing the data in OSM for three reasons:

*	I want to be sure any changes I make don't affect the base map UNLESS I'm absolutely positive my changes are accurite.
*	anything you change in the base data will offend someone
*	I find editing in mapinfo far simpler than the alternatives.

mick