[OSM-talk] Large Rivers in general, mapnik rendering in Particular

[Robin Paulson]

On 08/02/2008, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
> The main problem area seems to be that some people do not like the current
> proposal whereby a river is divided up in to separate closed areas.  The
> reason being that the "segment" crossing the river to close the area marks a
> boundary which does not actually exist.  Discussion on this could go on

why is that a problem? i regard this as analogous to breaking a long
road up into shorter ways. there is no property that changes at the
join of the two ways, but for practical reasons (very long ways are
bad), we break a 200km road into shorter pieces.

why can this approach not be used for rivers, at least until we come
up with something which is more elegant? it will provide a
'recommended' way of tagging wide rivers, something which doesn't
exist at the moment. anything is better than nothing