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

[David Groom]

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



----- 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
>
>
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>> What is the best way to get large rivers rendered properly for now?
>>
>> Thanks for your help ...
>> Ulf
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