[OSM-talk] Beaches

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Thursday 13 September 2007 10:04:06 Frederik Ramm wrote:
>     I just looked at a 1:250,000 scale OS map and found that they  
> usually draw a thin black coastline, and have the yellow(ish) beach  
> area on the sea side of that line; sometimes also to both sides of  
> that line. (Good examples: North Uist, Dornoch, Holy Island nr.  
> Berwick upon Tweed).
>
> Those of you having mapped beaches - how did you do it? If the  
> coastline is the "mean high water mark", then a the portion of the  
> beach that is nearly always accessible should be inside the  
> coastline, and the portion that is only visible at low tide should be  
> outside, right?

In Criccieth recently I just had the coastline set at a rough 
walking-down-the-beach and going-on-local-knowledge average tidal mark. The 
mapped beach starts from that coastline up to where the beach meets main 
land. Probably the wrong way to go but I was unsure as well :)

Kind regards,
Tom

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