[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Proposed features/lakeshore‎

[Roman Neumüller]

This is a proposal to be able to distinguish big lakes and reservoirs on
one hand from small lakes (natural=water) and sea (natural=coastline) on
the other.

There is a need to make the rendering of big lakes and reservoirs with
more than 500 nodes distinguishable from small lakes (with less than 500
nodes) and seas. Especially if working with [[JOSM]]'s [[Lakewalker]] to
create the outline of a big lake one has to choose
{{Tag|natural|coastline}} - otherwise one would have to create a
{{Tag|natural|water}} with say 20.000 nodes, (which makes loading in
either JOSM or potlatch very slow) - or one has to manually split the
20.000-node-lake into water-subparts which is not a very nice solution.
Coastline should be only applied to seas.