[OSM-talk] Me and Ed Parsons are drowning!

[Mark Williams]

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David Groom wrote:
> Looking at some of the relevant ways it certainly is a mess, as pointed out by Dermot Mcnally see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-August/028661.html
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> No one replied on list to his post.

I did - I think - but late as I was away...
It's a mess..

> I may be wrong, but I'm not sure that Mapnik yet supports the tag waterway=riverbank, which may be why there is such a jumble of tags applied to the ways making up the Thames.
> 
> In theory (leaving aside the question of tagging tidal rivers) the only required tagging is waterway=riverbank, but if Mapnik doesn't support it I assume people have being adding natural=water, and in places natural=coastline to try and force the rendering in mapnik.
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> This has led to some ways being tagged as natural = water, natural = coastline, waterway = riverbank. When you throw in the fact that ways tagged as natural = coastline don't need to be in relations to correctly show islands, but it is suggested that relations be used on the tags waterway = riverbank you get a complete mess.
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> Whilst the relevant ways could be tidied up, and just tagged as waterway = riverbank, there seems little point in doing so until Mapnik supports this tag, as someone I am sure will come along and retag natural = water, natural = coastline to try and force the rendering again.
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> David

I think it is - we'll soon spot it when it floods again, and if it's all
consistent it'll be less likely to get altered, + if it's all consistent
& doesn't render, someone will get frustrated enough to fix it :)


>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Gregory 
>   To: talk at openstreetmap.org 
>   Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:26 AM
>   Subject: [OSM-talk] Me and Ed Parsons are drowning!
> 
> 
> 
>   The Thames River has flooded...
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.4084&lon=-0.3652&zoom=12&layers=0B0FTF
> 
>   Has someone done something that will be fixed when it rerenders? Or could someone please have a look at it.
>   I don't know much about how riverbanks and the likes are supposed to be done.


Flooded - is that all?

Seen the
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.472&lon=0.041&zoom=11&layers=0B0FTF
Isle of Do?

(I think my dogs's been there ;( )

Mark
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