On 8/24/10, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Elena of Valhalla wrote: >> on the way that marks the boundary of lakes etc. I would expect the >> ele key to tag the average height of the water surface, since that is >> what is constant on the whole lake > > I live in a land of drought and flooding rains (apologies to the poet). So > the > level of water in various lakes and reservoirs varies from zero to maximal > so there is no constant level and the average value is not meaningful either
but is the bottom of such lakes a flat surface with a constant elevation? if it isn't, such a value wouldn't be meaningful as well -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org email: elena.valha...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
