[Talk-ca] canvec mep feature 1150012 10- Coastal water - (Eau côtière) = Ocean - ( Océan )

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Bégin, Daniel
<Daniel.Begin at rncan-nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> We then decided to use the concept of high/low water levels instead. The Permanency attribute indicates if the feature represents a low water level (1-permanent) or an area between the low and high water level (2-Intermittent). In this case (2), we don't modify anymore a feature based on the actual water limit, as long the water limits is within the Intermittent feature.
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> I hope I made it clearer.

Thank you for this information, Daniel.

> Concerning Osm, there is no water level definition for the moment but there is a proposed feature that match perfectly (*)!
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover
>
> If accepted, there will be a perfect - and easy - match between Canvec and Osm water body definition. Can this proposed feature be moved forward? Should we use this feature even if not accepted yet?

Sure, we should use it.  That proposal has been around since 2007.
This sometimes happens with things on the wiki; people move on and
start using the tag but the wiki lies unchanged.  OsmDoc shows us that
the tag is already in use.

http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/water/#values