[OSM-talk] FIXME and other issues

[Matthias Julius]

Dirk-Lüder Kreie <osm-list at deelkar.net> writes:

> waterway=riverbank is a kind of hack that probably got "destroyed" in
> the move to 0.5 at least if it were 2 separate segment chains that made
> up one way.
> I think Osmarender6 doesn't do the auto-closing of areas like the
> version 5 did. However you can now close the ways (even if slightly
> incorrect) because the segment doesn't need to be shared anymore.
> I would however suggest not to do this and adapt close-areas to also
> encompass waterway=riverbank and natural=water.

I would like riverbanks to work the same way as coastlines. That is,
everything to the right of it is water until the opposite riverbank.

Now that we have relations, we could have a relation with
natural=river referencing the ways that form the banks. They could
have roles "left_shore" and "right shore". But I have no idea how easy
that would be to implement in osmarender or mapnik.

Matthias