[OSM-talk] waterways through water bodies

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Mi., 23. Juni 2021 um 11:37 Uhr schrieb yvecai via talk <
talk at openstreetmap.org>:

> What is shown here is the river modellized with OSM's common datamodel
> where a river is represented with a connected set of ways, some of them
> crossing trough lakes with a subjective path. What this simple datamodel
> doesn't show, is the complex water flow trough water bodies.
>
> I guess you are free to replace the ways with your own subjective path
> if you feel like to.



there are (at least, and related to this topic) 2 fractions of mappers, I
just wanted to raise awareness that mapping rivers where there often aren't
(in lakes), is not the only common way of mapping. You could also leave
gaps for example.

Cheers,
Martin
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