Well at the moment it isn't rendering correctly as there is no coastline across the entrance.
Well to be tagged as natural=water it should be a body of standing water, such as a lake or pond. To be tagged as natural=bay it should be an area of water mostly surrounded or otherwise demarcated by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. It can also be an inlet in a lake or pond. I think it should be a bay or coastline. If I am unsure I use the following source to decide, but others may have different reasons to tag certain ways. http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/ It lists the feature code for Port Hacking as a bay. http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/gazd01?rec=78217# Regards, Markus. -----Original Message----- From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Harvey Sent: Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:14 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: [talk-au] Port Hacking (Bay v. Water) It seems Port Hacking has been subject to some edit warring. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/285916/history My view is that it is not a bay. Its name doesn't have bay, its more of a lake, or just a body of water, I would have thought. What is the consenus here? Should it be tagged natural=bay, natural=water or something else? Port Jackson, is similar, it just continues the coastline into the inlet of water. I would personally not prefer this though, because then you cannot tag it as "Port Jackson". _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
