On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Christoph Hormann wrote: > On Sunday 26 October 2014, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > > Furthermore the outer edge of a bay, i.e. the edge that is not > > > coastline is usually not well defined and would require an > > > arbitrary cutoff. > > > > Yes, cutoff is unfortunately quite arbitrary. But node placement is > > completely arbitrary - and lacks important information. > > I don't see what information is missing and cannot be easily determined > automatically with a properly placed node that is contained in an > area - except for the outer edge of course, which is usually > ill-defined though as you said yourself.
Any data consumer could quite easily, if not trivially, detect that fuzzy edge in this case if it cares about it in the first place (I've have some trouble in figuring out a sensible use case in which it would make a difference to know where the fuzzy border of a bays is). Besides, we really need to deal with object that have fuzzy borders already, e.g., some of the natural=wetland object come to my mind as an example. I quickly browsed through the related pages and discussions, for some strange reason the fuzzy border issue seems to not have been raised there at all? I suppose it's currently left solely to mappers discretion where to put the the edges. -- i. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
