On 9 April 2010 10:34, Cartinus wrote:
> For everyone who has never seen the sea
Seeing the sea isn't the problem, the sea is only a few blocks from here.
> Commonly a sandy beach consists of a dry part with loose sand above the high
> tide line and a wet part with compact sand between the
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:03 AM, John Smith wrote:
> On 9 April 2010 10:34, Cartinus wrote:
>> For everyone who has never seen the sea
>
> Seeing the sea isn't the problem, the sea is only a few blocks from here.
>
>> Commonly a sandy beach consists of a dry part with loose sand above the hig
On Friday 09 April 2010 09:03:03 John Smith wrote:
> Although that brings up another issue about how coastlines are legally
> defined as being at the mean low tide mark
Actually this is completely irrelevant.
In OSM the coastline is not defined that way.
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m.v.g.,
Cartinus
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> For everyone who has never seen the sea
>
> Commonly a sandy beach consists of a dry part with loose sand above the
> high
> tide line and a wet part with compact sand between the low and high tide
> lines. What th
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote:
> From http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beach
>
> > "Beach areas should always meet with a natural=coastline way. Do not use
> > this tag for patches of sand/gravel which are not by a coastline. Note
> > that the natural=coastline should ideally be positione
On 4/9/10 4:29 PM, Liz wrote:
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> Interesting that the wiki writer said that all beaches were on a coastline.
> Rivers here have beaches, and they have names like "Town Beach" (Tocumwal)
> "Wagga Beach" (Wagga Wagga).
>
many towns in upstate NY have town beaches on local lakes.
richard
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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Cartinus wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2010 09:03:03 John Smith wrote:
>> Although that brings up another issue about how coastlines are legally
>> defined as being at the mean low tide mark
>
> Actually this is completely irrelevant.
>
> In OSM the coastline is not d
