I think this appears to be the reference Richard mentioned: http://www.iho-ohi.net/iho_pubs/standard/S-23/S23_1953.pdf
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Richard Z. <ricoz....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 08:41:18AM +0100, Marc Gemis wrote: > > Could we try an example to see whether mappers agree on bay areas ? could > > you draw the Gulf of Biscay on a map ? > > > > This guy did it : > > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-9_Y031ZiZQ/THowBMn81dI/AAAAAAAACi8/inSvDDa1DC4/s1600/Golf+van+Biskaje.jpg > > > > I might have extended it a bit further to the west on the Spanish > coast... > > note that the big bodies of water such as the bay of biscay have been > "defined" > by the international hydropgraphic organization, wikipedia provides the > link. > > Those definitions should be probably mapped, but most likely with a > special tag > rather than our natural=bay because their definition of gulf of mexico is > obviously > not compatible with our definition of bay (refering to the sentence > fragment "in Cuba, > through this island to the meridian of 83°W" which includes a landmas to > the > definition) > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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