Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:53 AM, James Livingston wrote: > If in future we want to map both the low and high water marks, the > obvious thing to do would be to use coastline for the low water mark, > water=tidal[0] for the middle area, and beach/whatever for everything > that's dry. If you do it

Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-08 Thread Brett Russell
Hi I agree that it makes sense to have the coastline at low tide mark with a tidal zone area before the beach but accept that people's opinions on what is a beach differ. I will stick with the approach that coastline is high water mark but as mentioned how you do this from Bing is hit and mis

Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-08 Thread James Livingston
On 9 January 2013 09:53, James Livingston wrote: > On 8 January 2013 20:32, Brett Russell wrote: >> Assuming that I am reading OSM instructions correct the beach is suppose to >> only extend to the high water mark so the coastline and beach should have a >> one to one relationship on the water si

Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-08 Thread James Livingston
On 8 January 2013 20:32, Brett Russell wrote: > Assuming that I am reading OSM instructions correct the beach is suppose to > only extend to the high water mark so the coastline and beach should have a > one to one relationship on the water side. But then I have been wrong > before with OSM. I t

Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-08 Thread Brett Russell
com > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 21:01:09 +1100 > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Coastline and beaches > To: brussell...@live.com.au > > Worth keeping in mind that the natural=coastline is at the mean high > water mark, but I would think that the extent of the beach would go > out to sea to

[talk-au] Coastline and beaches

2013-01-08 Thread Brett Russell
Hi Looking as always to get better at OSM and read up on beaches and coastlines. Noticed that coastlines need care so not inclined to play with them too much but a question on the relationship to a beach. Ideally one side of the beach ends in water so should the beach be linked to the coast