On Saturday 17 November 2018, Kevin Kenny wrote: > [...] > If I cannot be given an answer to such a concrete problem, I will not > accept that the reason is that I am too stupid or unskilled to > understand your superior wisdom. [...]
To be clear i am not attempting to somehow proove something in this discussion. I provide advise how to approach the verifiable mapping of bays. That advise is and has always been (quoting here from my first reply): "My suggestion is and has always been to map bays with nodes in those cases where this - together with the coastline - perfectly documents the verifiable information available on the geometry of the bay" The existence of situations where this is not the case would not in any way invalidate my advise. And mappers following my advise or not for whatever reason is perfectly fine for me. That being said looking at the Jamaica Bay situation - i think we can agree that this is a hard case for labeling independent of how the bay is mapped in particular also on maps showing the entire bay because it is next to impossible to label the bay with a single label without undesirable collisions with other features. In contrast to other bay labeling cases i have not actually dealt with this kind of situation before. Still i think this is solvable and if someone would ask to contract me for developing a solution for this i would be highly interested because this would likely also touch several problems that are of significant use in cartographic generalization in general. A significant part of the problem is that with the current node placement it is borderline ambiguous if Jamaica Bay refers to the whole bay and Grassy Bay is only a part of it or if both refer to parts of the bay. To relatively robustly identify that is likely the tricky part. Apart from that the key here would be to identify the various islands within the bay to be within the bay and not part of the limitation of the bay. Once this is done and you have also analyzed the various sub-bays in the east (which look all relatively simple) you know the water at the western edge of your map sheet belongs to Jamaica Bay and the problem is solved. Not sure if that convinces you - as said my argument is not based on the claim that nodes are universally sufficient to document verifiable knowledge about bays. But in any case i want to be clear about one thing: > If it is a project that aspires to describe the whole world, it will surely have failed in that place. This is not what OpenStreetMap aims to do. This might be wikipedia's goal but OSM tries to collect verifiable knowledge about the geography of the world. That the existence of Jamaica Bay is part of that is not in dispute but still it is important to make that distinction. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
