[Talk-ca] coastline or water polygon

[Paul Norman]

> 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.