Hi did not checked it,

but a connection between Orinoco and Amazonas exists! It's the Cassiquiare.
(Not sure about the correct wording)

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Philippe Verdy <ver...@gmail.com> schrieb am Do., 19. März 2020, 12:28:

> There's certainly a problem in the way the multipolygon for the
> Orinoco river was created, without importing the water tags to it.
> And there's a suspiscious connection between Orinono and the Amazon
> via a tributary, creating an "island" in it. This multipolygon
> requires fixes (Osmose and other QA tools can help detect where this
> happens).
> I suspect that the multipolygon for the Orinoco River was modifioed
> recently to add too many riverbeds in it and not really belonging to
> it. This multipolygon is certainly broken.
> I joined the OSM French talk list. There may be QA tools to do that
> (it's not easy to fix as this covers a very large area, only JOSM
> experts can locate it, with the help of QA tools to locate the broken
> areas and superfluous tags. This will require loading lot of data, and
> JOSM running in a 64-bit Java VM with enough memory, plus a solid PC.
>
> Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 18:20, Jorieke Vyncke
> <jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> >   Interesting!
> > So is this an issue that can be fixed by the Humanitarian layer OSM
> France team? Or is it just a matter of updating OSM and waiting for the
> humaniarian layer to render it correctly?
> > Thanks, Jorieke
> >
> > Op do 19 mrt. 2020 om 16:47 schreef Philippe Verdy <ver...@gmail.com>:
> >>
> >> Most probably this is the "water bassin" of the Amazone river, which
> >> was tagged incorrectly with some "water=*" that causes problems in
> >> this rendering.
> >> Water bassins for rivers (which do not include only riverbeds and
> >> lakes/ponds, but also all surrounding lands whose drained waters on
> >> soil are converging to rivers) should not use this tag.
> >> This does not cause a problem however in the OSM Carto rendering. If
> >> that tag was approved, then the rendering for humanitarian map should
> >> be fixed (it is maintained by OSM France).
> >> But if I look at the boundary, I only sea ways for small riverbeds.
> >> So it is likely that some multipolygon for riverbeds areas of some
> >> river has been broken and the renderers attempt to "close" it due to
> >> holes, or that someone joined all these riverbeds into a single
> >> multipolygon.
> >> Given the size of the relation where it is used, this cannot be fixed
> in iD.
> >> Note also that given the current delays in the OSM data servers for
> >> data replication, this may be temporary and caused by lack of
> >> synchronization of the slave database used by the French renderer for
> >> HOT.
> >>
> >> Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 17:11, Jorieke Vyncke
> >> <jorieke.vyn...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> >
> >> > Hello,
> >> > Is there someone who knows why several countries in Latin America
> look like ocean on the humanitarian layer on OpenStreetMap? Check here:
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/3.119/-61.436&layers=H
> >> > Can someone fix that?
> >> > Thanks!
> >> > Jorieke
> >> >
> >> >
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