Hi, 'linear network water flow' should suffice. ... it's been recommended to tag it as 'directional=yes' where it's just a line in the direction of the water. .. if it's unknown 'directional=unknown'.
You could put 'oneway=yes' but don't let the talk-ca list know about it as some people will get all excited about it. ... it'll just add a nice arrow across the river, and make it look good. cheers, sam On 4/9/11, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: > The historical map I'm getting the information from calls them "... > Reach". According to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reach_%28geography%29 "Most generally, a > reach is any length of a stream between any two points." > > I can't think of a better term myself, so unless there are any other > suggestions I'll use reach for the time being. > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Elizabeth Dodd <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 18:22:49 +1000 >> Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I would like to map some named reaches ("straight portion of a stream >>> or river, as from one turn to another;") part of a major river. >>> >>> The river (e.g. >>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.50134&lon=150.8778&zoom=15&layers=M >>> ) currently has both a riverbank area drawn, and a way down the middle >>> of the river. To make things even more complicated, the way running >>> down the middle of the river has both waterway tags and administrative >>> boundary tags. >>> >>> I'm thinking the ideal way to map this (reaches + river + admin >>> boundary) would be split the way into segments for each reach, tag >>> each segment as waterway=reach, name=Foo Reach, then collect up the >>> river segments into a relation which contains waterway=river, name=Bar >>> River, and just leave the riverbank area as is. Not sure what to do >>> with the admin boundary tags though. >>> >>> I'm not sure what's best though. Any thoughts? Thanks. >>> >> >> I'd be looking at another word for "reach". I'm not making any >> suggestions, but it isn't a simple English term, and using difficult >> terms makes the cross-language stuff hard. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- --- Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network Victoria, BC Canada Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
