[Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] Coastline missing in Lake Superior - in case anyone notices...

G. Michael Carter mikey at carterfamily.ca
Tue Aug 10 19:57:28 BST 2010


I'm perfectly fine killing the "coastal" tag from the Canadian side on 
all fresh water lakes... makes more sense to me.   Plus it doesn't 
import very well into my Garmin GPS anyways...   you end up pulling half 
the globe just to get the "connecting lines", since it's not a single 
object.

Michael

On 10/08/10 02:52 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 11 August 2010 04:51, Sam Vekemans<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> ....
>> a 'lake' and 'shoreline' are 2 different map features.
>>      
> We don't get the sorts of levels of water as they do in North America
> so to me a shoreline is only along the sea shore...
>
> Where as bodies of fresh water are usually lakes (natural=water)...
>    




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