On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:45:04 -0400
Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange
> <pdora...@mac.com> wrote:
> > ... Perhaps have you a proposition. But for my part, it seems
> > "natural" to use the natural flow of the way has the natural flow
> > of the river.
> 
> It may be natural once one knows that you're supposed to represent the
> direction. But I've come across many waterways that were mapped
> without regard for the direction. Three examples, mapped by three
> different people:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/71760642 Eight Mile Canal:
> flows west into the St. Johns River
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/44644481 Canal L-406: flows
> south into Canal L-405
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/7044872 Venetian Canal: flows
> north into Lake Maitland (I believe)
> 
>
You could add rivers I have mapped to that list (Murray, Darling,
Murrumbidgee, Lachlan)
although I think the directions may have been edited.
At places you would find that the rivers I did were made of segments
which go in different directions because I had no care for the direction

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