[talk-au] Breaking a beach?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

1) I think it is fine to consider differently named sections
of shoreline beach as separate objects 
(it gets trickier when areas overlap)

2) it is likely much easier to edit it in JOSM


Sep 15, 2021, 02:22 by graemefitz1 at gmail.com:

> Have had a look at this several times & can't figure out how to fix it?
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/17960956>  has been mapped as one beach for the entire northern part of the Gold Coast, which is fair enough as it is an unbroken length of sand the whole way.
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> However, at some stage, several years ago, the entire length was named as  "Main Beach", which is actually only one relatively short section. A few years later, the name was then changed to "Surfers Paradise Beach", which, while more famous (?), is even shorter! In actual fact, this stretch of sand covers 9 separate named beaches / areas.
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> Is there any way of breaking this one area into multiple beaches? (& I only use iD, which probably makes things harder?)
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> To make matters worse, there are a host of relations involved in the same line/s: suburb (multiple), City, Qld & Australian boundaries; Mainland Australia relation; Coastline; watershed & undoubtedly more, of which breaking any one will mean the end of civilisation!
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> https://www.openstreetmap.org/query?lat=-28.05921&lon=153.44282#map=19/-28.05899/153.44394
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> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>

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