On 23/10/2010, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > When this was tried for some areas in my local area with natural=bay > instead of natural=water, with no coastline tag around the edge, and > instead cutting the coastline across the entrance, the bay rendered in > Mapnik as land, not water. I'm thinking this a bug in mapnik that I > should report, but I'm not really sure.
My experience too. On 20/10/2010, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > There are almost 15000 points in the OSM database that include > natural=bay. There are 241 polygons that include natural=bay. > > Place a point in the bay, and tag it as > natural=bay > name=My Bay Name Given that for the entire coastline of the world there are only 241 polygons tagged natural=bay I would have to say that tagging a polygon as natural=bay is extremely rare. I am in Sydney, Australia and there would be close to this number of named bays within 100 km of Sydney alone. Tagging them as points and not polygons is consistent with usage on official maps, simple and avoids the problem of undefined boundaries at interfaces with other bodies of water like oceans. Given the problem of rendering polygons as natural=bay and the rareness of this I think that Richard Weait's tagging should be used and the tagging of polygons as natural=bay should be deprecated. If the body of water requires a polygon and tagging, then it should be tagged natural=water, which does not have these problems. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
