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,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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