On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 20:27, Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > We have that at one extreme, a case where almost all the boundaries > are indefinite. Nevertheless, the Drake Passage has some sort of > existence. If a map user reads the sentence, 'The _Nancie Belle,_ > having survived the perilous journey through the Drake Passage, turned > to the north and made for Buenos Aires,' then that user might well > ask, "Where's the Drake Passage?". Should OpenStreetMap contain the > information needed to answer that question, perhaps through a > Nominatim query? If so, in what form should that information be > represented? Ought that information be in such a form that a map of > the Southern Ocean can render it competently, or is that rendering not > a job for OSM? > How about natural=strait? For very large values of "strait." Or, if you don't like the idea of large values of strait, rewrite the wiki page changing A strait is a narrow area of water surrounded by land on two sides and by water on two other sides forming a connection between those bodies of water. to A strait is a channel of water surrounded by land on two sides and by water on two other sides forming a connection between those bodies of water. Because the point of a strait is not that it is narrow in absolute terms but that it is narrower than the bodies of water it connects. OTOH, it is a very large value of "strait." -- Paul
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