Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-04 Thread steggink
Another option is to tag water as coastline at places where there is significant tide. This will include the estuary up until approximately Quebec City. Regarding tagging the Great Lakes as coastline: why would there be an exception for them, where as other large lakes (Great Slave Lake,

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-04 Thread Paul Norman
From: perso...@charleskiyanda.com [mailto:perso...@charleskiyanda.com] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 9:27 AM To: Harald Kliems Cc: talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec The question of where does the coastline end and riverbank start

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-03 Thread Adam Martin
Charles, I took a look at the area that you describe and I see what you mean - the coastline designation disappears around Sorel and reappears just past Montreal. Looking in the area of the gap, the use of Coastline appears to suddenly switch to Water and Riverbank. The source of the information

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-03 Thread Andrew Lester
Why not tag it as both? The surrounding ways are already tagged with both. ...or tag the ways as coastline and make one or more relations to mark the riverbank area. Whatever happens, having the coastline end for this short stretch does seem wrong, and if someone is reverting changes there,

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-03 Thread Adam Martin
Agreed. The fact of the matter is that, whatever the best means to map the area is, the current situation is not the best and whomever is reverting attempts at correcting it needs to be contacted. Adam On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Lester a-les...@shaw.ca wrote: Why not tag it as

Re: [Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-03 Thread Harald Kliems
Just to add to that: The question of coastline versus riverbank is not just a mapping/geographical question, but also a technical one. Because of the length and complexity of the coastline and the requirement to render it at low zoom levels, there is special pre-processing for converting the

[Talk-ca] coastline between Montreal and Sorel, Quebec

2014-04-02 Thread Charles Basenga Kiyanda
Anybody know why the coastline stops about midway along the Montreal Island (and also Ile Jésus) and then starts again around Sorel? I got one report from someone who tried to fix this and was quickly reverted. Should it be fixed at some point and it's just such a large undertaking that nobody