The use of "distance" for river length distracts me as well. But I'm trying to find its origin on this wiki page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway distance <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:distance> * (optional) Total length of river in kmCheers, Eugene
сб, 16 февр. 2019 г. в 02:33, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 01:38, Eugene Podshivalov <yauge...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> André, that's correct but do you happen to know why "distance" was >> selected for route and waterway length then? >> > > No idea why, but rivers should certainly be shown with a length. > > EG The Nile rises in Lake Victoria & travels to the Mediterranean with a > length of ~6695km (depending on reference used), but the distance between > Kampala, on the north shore of Lave Victoria & Cairo is only 3300km. > > OSM shows it fairly accurately as 6853km but as a distance, when it should > clearly be a length - may be a re-write required? > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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