[Talk-lv] Riverbank tagging

[Viesturs Zarins]

Hi Tomas,

I skimmed though the doc. And it seems that the argument is about using
waterway=riverbank vs water=river for water covered areas of a river.

Assuming both are rendered the same, is there any practical difference
between the two?

On the surface it seems a very much clinging to a name because that is how
we started out 10 years ago and the community process was not great about
the change.

Speaking here as one from Latvian community but opinion below is my own
only:

IMO water=river fits better with the overall tagging pattern.
waterway=* is about the same as highway=* and used for adding routable data
and centerlines.

The similarly used but not officially approved area:highway=* for highways.
I would personally prefer area:waterway=* just for consistency sake.

As long as tag renaming is a simple search replace thing, I would not be
too worried about the renames. And maybe try to focus on proposing a better
tagging scheme going forward. Open source communities work best when people
focus on new work rather than nitpicking what we already have.

Best,
Viesturs

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021, 08:19 Tomas Straupis <tomasstraupis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
>   I've noticed that you've got an email from Martin Machyna about so
> called "upgrading" of riverbanks. It is very unfortunate that people
> who have never created a single map are proposing to destroy good GIS
> data, presenting it as the only and "improving" way. But let's leave
> that for the critical thinking of Latvian community.
>
>   However I would like to give you a decription of a different opinion
> based on GIS/Cartography:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Cartography/Waterways
> made by people who actually make maps from OSM data
> (https://topo.openmap.lt, https://shapes.openmap.lt/varene2021.pdf).
>
>   Also note: in Lithuania we strive for the highest possible quality
> of OSM GIS data, so DO NOT "accidentally" damage water objects in
> Lithuania as some of "fixers" are currently doing ;-)
>
>   Paldies.
>
> --
> Tomas
>
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