Re: [Tagging] Naming boundary ways

2012-10-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/04/12 03:17, A.Pirard.Papou wrote: 1) While the A name= of the relation is the name of the area, such as London or Wales, the possible B name has nothing to do with the area. The B name can be that of a river, of a road, or the border piece can be immaterial or chosen not to be represe

[Tagging] Naming boundary ways

2012-10-03 Thread A.Pirard.Papou
Hello, Please do not only reply technically (once), please state your preferences (sort of poll). This is how, traditionally, municipalities, provinces, ..., countries, continents are traced. A: The land area is a polygon relation assembling the border

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
Paul Johnson wrote: > Wouldn't they be seas due to their size? > > On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > > > The Great Lakes in North America are freshwater lakes that are > tagged as > > coastline. > > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Frank Steggink > 'stegg...@steggink.or

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
Wouldn't they be seas due to their size? On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > The Great Lakes in North America are freshwater lakes that are tagged as > coastline. > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Frank Steggink > > > wrote: > >> No, the bridge, called Hollandse Brug, is no

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Michael Krämer
Am 03.10.2012 18:40 schrieb "Brad Neuhauser" : > > The Great Lakes in North America are freshwater lakes that are tagged as coastline. Which is to my understanding mostly due to historical reasons (not multipolygon at that time). There was some discussion about this recently on talk (if I remember

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Brad Neuhauser
The Great Lakes in North America are freshwater lakes that are tagged as coastline. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Frank Steggink wrote: > No, the bridge, called Hollandse Brug, is not a dam, although the bridge > separates two waterbodies. The one to the northwest is called the > Markermeer, an

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Simone Saviolo
2012/10/3 Martin Koppenhoefer > 2012/10/3 Martin Vonwald : > > Hi! > > > > Any reason why the coastline should go around a bridge? > > > > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=coastline&lon=5.13984&lat=52.32549&zoom=16&opacity=0.55&overlays=coastline_error_lines,line_not_a_ring,line_overlap,lin

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Frank Steggink
No, the bridge, called Hollandse Brug, is not a dam, although the bridge separates two waterbodies. The one to the northwest is called the Markermeer, and the other one is called Gooimeer. https://www.google.nl/search?q=hollandse+brug&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&clie

Re: [Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/3 Martin Vonwald : > Hi! > > Any reason why the coastline should go around a bridge? > > http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=coastline&lon=5.13984&lat=52.32549&zoom=16&opacity=0.55&overlays=coastline_error_lines,line_not_a_ring,line_overlap,line_invalid,line_direction,questionable,coastlin

[Tagging] Coastline around a bridge?

2012-10-03 Thread Martin Vonwald
Hi! Any reason why the coastline should go around a bridge? http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=coastline&lon=5.13984&lat=52.32549&zoom=16&opacity=0.55&overlays=coastline_error_lines,line_not_a_ring,line_overlap,line_invalid,line_direction,questionable,coastline_error_points,unconnected,intersec