> It is a bay of the Tasman Sea/Pacific Ocean. Ecologically it is a fully maritime waterbody.
What do you mean by "maritime waterbody"? If you're in Botany Bay or the other bays there such as https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1333569, you're not at sea or in the sea, or in the ocean. If you swim at a coastal beach you're swimming in the sea and the ocean. At the beaches of Botany Bay, no one would say you're in the sea or ocean. Nor would they say you're on the coast of Australia. Botany Bay is unlike many conventional bays which are on the coastline and part of the sea. You're right that these types of bays are part of the sea and ocean, and other times they are part of a river, but botany bay is really a river nor sea, if anything Botany Bay sounds much more like an Esturary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary On 27 March 2017 at 22:46, Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote: > On Monday 27 March 2017, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> >> What water body is Botany Bay >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botany_Bay part of? >> >> I don't think it's right too tag the inside of the bay as coastline. >> "A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or >> ocean" the inside of the bay isn't the sea, hence the water/land >> boundary isn't the coastline. > > I have had this discussion countless times in other cases and Botany Bay > is not even a borderline case. > > It is a bay of the Tasman Sea/Pacific Ocean. Ecologically it is a fully > maritime waterbody. > > The only alternative would be to consider it the lowest part of the > Georges River which would be an extreme stretch considering the size of > the bay and its connection to the sea compared to the discharge of the > river. > > More elaborate discussion of the matter can be found on the wiki: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Coastline-River_transit_placement > > As said a bay is not a separate waterbody in OSM so if you consider > something a bay you need to decide what it is a bay of. Tagging > natural=water + water=bay is always factually wrong (and is also only > used about 80 times globally). > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
