[Talk-ca] [OpenStreetMap] #3188: Coastal intermittent water representation - Canvec

[Lennard]

On 26-8-2010 20:02, Bégin, Daniel wrote:
> Well, what can I say?
>
> the Canadian community agreed on using water_cover proposal almost a year ago and the entire canadian contry is now available in .osm format using this proposal...
>
> What do you think?

I'm fine with either schema. We can always retag our NL stuff, so that's 
not a factor.

As far as mapnik is concerned, it also makes no difference either way. 
It currently treats all natural=wetland the same, so that's not ideal 
either. Better support for these tags is needed for both tagging 
schemes. It's just that I was under the impression that wetland=* had 
won out over water_cover, not just on the wiki (but who reads that 
thing? :)) and also in practice.

A note on the water_cover wiki page that the tagging has been adopted 
for the CanVec conversion and will start to appear in OSM shortly might 
be helpful. I don't remember, but has this been on the lists?

-- 
Lennard