[talk-au] Murray River relation deletion?

[Warin]

On 22/5/23 16:09, Little Maps wrote:
> Hi folks, just checking to make sure I'm not missing something here...
>
> There's a large relation called 'Murray River' which covers all of 
> Lake Hume, plus an upstream section of the Murray. This is a 
> natural=water 'riverbank' relation, not a waterway relation.
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8327459#map=11/-36.1129/147.3280
>
> There's also another, nearly identical, relation called 'Lake Hume' 
> that covers Lake Hume only. This only covers the lake, not the river 
> upstream, and looks fine.
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1531635#map=11/-36.0960/147.2417
>
> Are there any objections if I severely truncate the Murray River 
> relation so it excludes Lake Hume, and includes only the river 
> upstream of Lake Hume, where it will join the eastern edge of the Lake 
> Hume relation?
>
> The southern arm of Lake Hume is fed by the Mitta Mitta not the 
> Murray, so calling the entire lake the Murray River is problematic. 
> Again, this relation covers the boundary of the lake, not the central 
> waterway.
>

That sound good to me. I have posed a simpler question on the wiki ..

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:water%3Driver#Conflicts_between_river_bank_mapping_and_a_lake%2Freservoir

See what the 'experts' come up with.