On 14/04/2015, Christoph Hormann <chris_horm...@gmx.de> wrote: > It is the other way round - the riverbank polygon is optional and 'nice > to have'. The waterway line is what actually defines a river in OSM, > it also gets the name tag and other attributes.
Yes, this is the same principle that gives us highway=* vs area:highway=* (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Street_area). Note that as a result, the riverbank polygon doesn't need a name=*, because that is taken from the linear river way instead. Changing topics, I've just stumbled on the wiki on the "natural=water, water=river" tagging that I wasn't aware of and is supposed to replace waterway=riverbank. 4 years after being "approved", it still represents only about 3% of the riverbank tagging. I guess that the "it's more uniform and logical" argument wasn't compeling enough, and that "tagg...@osm.org" != "osm community"... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
