[Talk-us] Great Lakes Boundaries

Jim McAndrew jim at loc8.us
Mon Apr 27 14:36:56 UTC 2015


Mike,

Thanks for doing this! It sounds like a much bigger ordeal than I had
originally thought.

--
Jim

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> Since no objection to removing "natural=water" from the Lake Superior
> relation has been expressed, I have removed it. I also amended the note on
> the relation asking that it not be added back in.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 9:08 PM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Inland sea...
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 24.04.2015 um 17:23 schrieb AJ Ashton <aj.ashton at gmail.com>:
>>
>> Yes, if Lake Superior is mapped as natural=coastline (which I think is
>> the easier-to-maintain approach for such a large & complex water body) then
>> we should remove natural=water from the multipolygon relation (r4039486).
>> Does anyone have any objection to this? It's causing some noticeable
>> rendering issues both in the standard style and for data consumers.
>>
>>
>>
>> yes, if the coastline tag remains it seems logical to remove the
>> natural=water tag. Semantically the coastline tag on a freshwater lake is
>> clearly wrong, but it seems to be an accepted compromise in this case:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dcoastline#What_about_lakes.3F
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> Martin
>>
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