Looking at the US NHD estuary is broadly defined. For example, The Skagit River flows through my county into the Puget Sound in Washington State. I would expect the delta area, where it empties into the sound to be defined as an estuary. And it is. But apparently so is the whole of Puget Sound. The trouble I see if 1) if we define an estuary different than scientific model or 2) use the science definition of an estuary. If we differ from the science definition, we'll constantly battle users of what is included in our model and what isn't. If we go with the scientific definition then we'll get questions on why we picked that model when it sometimes doesn't make sense.
I'd really like to hear from someone that can explain exactly what an estuary encompases and what makes sense to map. Best, Clifford On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 5:26 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > Then there is the additional problem that the terminal end of the way used > to indicate the waterway=river connects with the "coastline" which is where > the estuary portion of the river ends. I'm not clear about which object you > propose adding the estuary=yes tag to? Let me put it another way. If the > particular river is mapped using a way that terminates on the coastline, > where does the estuary tag get placed? I realize that some rivers are > mapped using just a riverbank area, i.e, there is no way to terminate, but > that still leaves my question unanswered. > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 7:13 AM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> & we get back to the same problem previously discussed with river > sea >> ... >> >> At what point does a river become an estuary & where does that then >> become the sea? >> >> Having said that, I quite like river=estuary :-), but I think we'll have >> problems defining it? >> >> Thanks >> >> Graeme >> >> >> On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 09:53, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 at 00:43, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> estuary = tidal mount of a large river? As defined by the Oxford >>>> Dictionary. >>>> >>> >>> Estuaries are complicated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuary >>> >>> -- >>> Paul >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Tagging mailing list >>> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- @osm_washington www.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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