[Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Sun Apr 15 03:08:52 BST 2012
> From: Andrew Allison [mailto:andrew.allison at teksavvy.com]
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:55 PM
> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon
>
> Hello:
> I'm removing red dots on the north coast of Nova Scotia at the
> moment with canvec data. The canvec data has a bunch of polygons for the
> coastline.
>
> Is there any strong arguments which is better either
>
> natural = coastline vs polygon of water?
>
> Coastline = updates slowly, but smaller ways
> water = updates faster but larger and less intuitive .
>
> Andrew
The data in Nova Scotia in OSM is broken. Someone imported large natural=water polygons on the coast over existing data. I fixed about half of the imports and haven't had time to get back to the rest. The coastline should *not* be mapped with natural=water.
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