Hi. I would run the main waterway=river way through the lake polygon, like you run it through a riverbank polygon.
- Ben Kelley On 12/06/2013 2:32 PM, "Brett Russell" <brussell...@live.com.au> wrote: > > Hi****** > > I am now starting work on rivers and streams but would like some guidance > on dealing with rivers that have dams on them. A good example is the > Forth River in Tasmania. I have started building up the river banks as > it can be quite wide using the polygon tagged riverbank and had no issues > as yet. But what do I do with hydro lakes? I have read that some OSM > mappers do not like the river running through the lake and prefer it to > stop and start it at the lake. Must admit that I struggle to know when a > river stops and lake starts when working from Bing. Also, water may go a > little distance in an underground pipe so you get a gap from the dam wall > to the outflow from the power station. I assume we map what we see from > Bing?**** > > As usual, any guidance would be appreciated to improve my mapping quality. > **** > > I used OSM on a nine day Overland Track Wall and found it very good with > the Garmins that I was using. Used the routable maps and found they were > about a one kilometre in ten understated on distance due to fewer nodes > recorded in OSM compared to the distance tracked by the GPSs. Still very > impressive compared to the expensive and poor quality Garmin maps. Need > to work with someone to get OSM bushwalking maps going as walking tracks, > mountains and huts need to be zoomed in a long way to see thus you get > “lost” in the trees finding them. Also the search feature on the Garmin > can be rather “broken”, by that items do not appear in the all POI lists > but can be found in sub lists. Bit more work needed by my to refine the > tracks and the features but gradually working my way south to north > refining the track. > > Mud Map 2 looks promising but sadly it does not render lakes and mountains > being optimised for 4WD tracks. It is better suited to the 4WD users than > bushwalkers at the moment but I do hope that they continue its development > to cover bushwalkers. > > It would be great to combine Contour Australia 5M with OSM data into one > img file rather than having both OSM and Contour Australia 5M maps enabled. > Especially useful for Garmin Basecamp on the computer as you either have > OSM or Contours Australia 5 showing. > > Also for drawing in rivers and streams it would be good in JOSM to have > Contours Australia as a data layer so I can deal with rivers and streams > that run under forest cover. > > As usual again any help greatly appeciated. > > Cheers Brett**** > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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