[OSM-talk] Large river proposal open for voting was rendering oflarge rivers

[David Groom]

The proposed tag waterway = riverbank was approved by 13 votes to 1, with 1 
abstention.

David




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:23 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Large river proposal open for voting was rendering 
oflarge rivers


> There has not been any recent discussion of the proposal for large rivers,
> so I have asked for voting on the proposal as outlined at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Large_rivers
>
> David
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Hill" <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <ulf.mehlig at gmx.net>; <talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] rendering of large rivers
>
>
>>I have tagged the rivers Trent and Ouse which merge into the Humber 
>>estuary
>>to get it to render and be consistently tagged.  I tried a few schemes and
>>got advice from others, especially David Groom.  I broke up the river into
>>chunks.  I tagged the banks of these chunks as waterway=riverbank and
>>natural=water.  I tagged the islands in the same way.  I then created a
>>multipolygon relation to place the islands in the river.  I had to get the
>>direction of the way right to persuade the multipolygon relation to work.
>>Near the mouth of the river a chunk of coastline extends into the river.
>>
>> You can see the result at
>> http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=53.70&lon=-0.599&zoom=12
>>
>> cheers, Chris
>>
>>
>>>
>>> What is the best way to get large rivers rendered properly for now?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help ...
>>> Ulf
>>>
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