Am 19. Februar 2012 12:16 schrieb Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, almost all rivers start small and become bigger ;-), but despite >> being small, don't they already start as rivers at their spring? > > No, because the OSM definition of 'river' is width. (As opposed to > languages like French which distinguish between waterways that empty > in the sea and those that empty into other rivers).
The wiki says: "For narrow rivers which will be rendered as a line. For larger rivers see waterway=riverbank. For really small rivers and streams, see waterway=stream." This is ambiguous (reads as if waterway=river isn't appropriate for larger rivers, I changed this right now to "Waterway=river is used to tag a river. For larger rivers also have a look at waterway=riverbank. For really small rivers and streams, see waterway=stream." "really small river" would not be a valid description for the still narrow initial part of a large river, would it? cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
