[Talk-ca] Bodies of seawater in Canada - area definitions

[David Nelson]

I recently posted a diary entry detailing my intent to put into OSM area definitions, implemented as multipolygon relations, for all named bodies of seawater in Canada, and I was just informed that there was a consensus in place that this should not be done, owing to the possibility that such a data set would be unmaintainable.  I have already done this for the entire British Columbia coast, and having experienced few but easily solvable problems thus far, have now been working on the Atlantic coast of Canada, starting in the Bay of Fundy and progressing almost to Halifax as of now.  I would really like to continue with this project, and I am hoping I could find some support to that effect.  I am willing to maintain this data subset on my own, using other tools made available to editors, such as OSM Inspector.  Plus, the validator in JOSM recommends that bodies of water be defined as areas and not as points.  I of course would not attempt to put in a relation for, say, the Atlantic Ocean, as such a relation would require what I see as way too many member ways.

- David E. Nelson
OSM user "DENelson83"
Courtenay, BC, Canada

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