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

[Robin Paulson]

On 11/02/2008, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

as a further analogy, to map landuse=residential areas (or commercial,
industrial, ...), we don't use one giant area for the whole city, but
break it up into smaller areas, along arbitrary lines. breaking a
river up similarly is no different at all