[OSM-talk] How to tag a big lake

[Jonas Svensson]

On 18 Apr 2007 at 14:41, Hakan Tandogan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I just finished a big lake ( Lake Egirdir in Turkey,
> http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/Browse/?x=2398&y=1576&z=12&tileset=0 )
> which fills 4 x 8 Level 12 tiles. The ways around the lake have no gaps,
> go clockwise and are all tagged with k="natural" v="water".
> 
> The result is, predictably, less than pretty ;-)
> 
> How do you guys tag big lakes? Do you add additional segments inside each
> tile to make the polygon "complete" enough to satisfy the renderers or
> leave the correct polygon and wait for the renderers to fix the problem?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Hakan

Looks a lot like Lake Vänern here in Sweden, which I asked about 
recently. Got this ansver: 
<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2007-
April/012736.html>

/Jonas