Re: [OSM-talk] Is it land or sea: how to map a swamp?

There is a wetland proposal which includes wetland=mangrove. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Wetland_areas In the area where I am working at the moment http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-0.85lon=-46.991zoom=9layers=0B0FTF (almost) all the coastline is drawn along the

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it land or sea: how to map a swamp?

Thanks for pointing to this one, certainly much more useful and general than adding natural=mangrove. Mike Limerick At 03:27 PM 11/07/2008, Ulf Mehlig wrote: There is a wetland proposal which includes wetland=mangrove. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Wetland_areas

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it land or sea: how to map a swamp?

I agree with Stephen's comments and add that I follow the rule if in doubt, map it as land since we don't have the luxury of being able to map average high water marks or highest spring tide mark that a government agency might use. If it is something that I can walk out and see most of the day

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it land or sea: how to map a swamp?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 natural=marsh? (from Map Features) I would expect to find coastline on the open-sea border of this. Mark Mike Collinson wrote: I agree with Stephen's comments and add that I follow the rule if in doubt, map it as land since we don't have the

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it land or sea: how to map a swamp?

The northern coast of Australia has many Mangrove marshes at river mouths, some of them extending many kilometres away from the dry shore line. PGS shows these areas as sea, because they are not dry land - and that is were the coastlines would have been imported from. Note that being submerged