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

[Jarek Piórkowski]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 17:15, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> What's more, these waterbodies do not have an observable or even well
> defined outer boundary, forcing waterbody mappers to invent random
> straight lines on the far side of some gulf or bay or whatever. This
> runs counter to our maxim of mapping what is verifiable on the ground.

This is true of most natural features. When will we be deleting the
Alps (relation/2698607) or the Berliner Urstromtal (relation/2218270)?

If I wanted to push things to an absurd extreme, coasts are not
observable on a micro scale, clearly anyone mapping coasts is doing so
along a made-up boundary just to get a nice blue body of water roughly
where they think it should be.

I would also be interested as to how political boundaries (of
municipalities, states, etc) are verifiable on the ground their entire
length. We can start keeping the database slim and tidy by deleting
those.

--Jarek