Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-09-02 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-09-02 10:50, Warin wrote: > On 29/08/18 01:46, Colin Smale wrote: > > On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: > whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to > achieve. > OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't > know why

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-09-02 Thread Warin
On 29/08/18 01:46, Colin Smale wrote: On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to achieve. OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't know why I bother," like I am now, where would we be? To

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-29 Thread Mike Evans
Hi David On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:09:58 + "David Groom" wrote: > >>There is no consensus. > >> > >>Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which > >>is > >>tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. > >> > >>Reasons for this > >> > >>1) Ask any one who liv

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-29 Thread David Groom
-- Original Message -- From: "Mike Evans" To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Cc: "David Groom" Sent: 28/08/2018 19:22:16 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:47 + "David Groom" wrote: There is no consensus. P

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Mike Evans
On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:47 + "David Groom" wrote: > There is no consensus. > > Personally I'm not in favour of the view that any body of water which is > tidal should be bounded by a way tagged as coastline. > > Reasons for this > > 1) Ask any one who lives in say central London "do you

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
On 2018-08-28 16:43, David Groom wrote: > whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to > achieve. OK, I might as well give up now then. If everybody started thinking "I don't know why I bother," like I am now, where would we be?__

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread David Groom
Colin whilst in theory I'd say yes, in practice I'd say consensus is hard to achieve. David -- Original Message -- From: "Colin Smale" To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org Sent: 28/08/2018 12:23:33 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers David, do you co

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
d large non tidal water > areas as coastline > > 3) If knowledge that a body of water is tidal is important it can be tagged > "tidal = yes" > > David > > -- Original Message ------ > From: "Colin Smale" > To: "Talk-GB" &g

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread David Groom
ter is tidal is important it can be tagged "tidal = yes" David -- Original Message -- From: "Colin Smale" To: "Talk-GB" Sent: 28/08/2018 08:49:01 Subject: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers That old chestnut again... There seems to be an open discussi

Re: [Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Tony Shield
I'm with Colin on this. My experience of sailing and reading Admiralty charts is that the coastline is the High Water line.  Yes it looks inconvenient or unnatural - but tidal area as implied by coastline is so important to small boat users. The River Dart Way: 194211894 waterway= riverb

[Talk-GB] Coastline and tidal rivers

2018-08-28 Thread Colin Smale
That old chestnut again... There seems to be an open discussion about how far up a river the natural=coastline should go. The wiki suggests the coastline should be the high water line going up to the tidal limit (often a lock or a wier) but this can be a substantial distance inland. This is AIUI