On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 12:16 PM Christoph Hormann <o...@imagico.de> wrote:
> > I'm afraid that I'm not following this argument very well. What about > > a bay is 'completely non-verifiable?' > > The geometry. > > These geometries: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/544856564 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/119562181 > > are completely non-verifiable. They add data but they does not add any > substantial information about the verifiable geographic reality to the > database that could not be represented with a single node. > We agree that those are mismapped examples. If you're going to map a bay as an area, extend its boundaries to the shore! With these geometries: > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/372986131 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2824513 > > a large portion of the geometry and as a result the derived way_area are > completely non-verifiable. Also here a properly placed node would > together with the coastline transport all the verifiable information > about the geographic reality there is. > Even in that extreme example, having the spatial extent adds value. Consider a large-scale map of the villages of Audierne https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/26698453 and Poulgoazec, rendered on a sheet of paper. How will the renderer of such a paper map determine that the body of water on the southern edge of the sheet is to acquire the name, 'Baie D'Audierne', without information about the spatial extent of the bay? (I do not ask this question in terms of any particular piece of rendering software - and in particular not Mapnik-OSM Carto. The question is how, even in theory, any conceivable renderer can be expected to make that determination.) Does the same argument apply for an indentation in the coastline that's more nearly totally enclosed? Is the Sea of Azov https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5486417 mapped correctly? The Black Sea? https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/7160849 Would the Adriatic Sea deserve such treatment (right now it's just 'coastline' and maybe a node that I can't find). The Ægean Sea? The Tyrrhenian Sea? The Ionian Sea? The Gulf of Taranto? (Moving out to lesser and lesser amounts of enclosure.) Closer to home for me, would Jamaica Bay (the area seen in https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/40.6007/-73.8731) rate a multipolygon? RIght now it's just coastline, which leads it to be accounted as 'Atlantic Ocean'. That would puzzle the locals, who often refer to 'the ocean side' and 'the bay side' of the Rockaway Peninsula. Here, too, the extent of the bay is pretty well determined except for the precise location of its mouth. (That one might most 'objectively' be placed at the narrowest part of Rockaway Inlet, under the Marine Parkway Bridge, but local mariners instead say that one enters Jamaica Bay when one crosses the imaginary line between the lighthouse on the Rockaway Point jetty and the light on Steeplechase Pier at Coney Island, and I generally defer to the locals when it comes to knowing the extent of a place.) If I were to produce a large-scale paper map of my former home town of Inwood https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/174930, without spatial information, how would my renderer know that the large water body at the left edge of the sheet should be labeled, 'Jamaica Bay' or that the small one that would likely appear on the sheet's southwest corner is Norton Basin? With partial areas that are as represented as [multi]polygons, the rendering toolchain that I use can handle the labels quite nicely today. I have absolutely no idea how I'd make it go searching for a nearby node, or what to do when if finds one. Is the answer that, "if you want to produce such a map, OSM is the wrong tool for the job'? Or, 'well, given just the node, eventually a sufficiently sophisticated AI will be able to reconstruct the area?' Neither answer helps very much with the practical problem, although they would at least inform me that I need to maintain hydrographic data separate from OSM at least until such time as the miraculous AI arises.
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