There has not been any recent discussion of the proposal for large rivers, so I have asked for voting on the proposal as outlined at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/Large_rivers
David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <talk@openstreetmap.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 6:41 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] rendering of large rivers >I have tagged the rivers Trent and Ouse which merge into the Humber estuary >to get it to render and be consistently tagged. I tried a few schemes and >got advice from others, especially David Groom. I broke up the river into >chunks. I tagged the banks of these chunks as waterway=riverbank and >natural=water. I tagged the islands in the same way. I then created a >multipolygon relation to place the islands in the river. I had to get the >direction of the way right to persuade the multipolygon relation to work. >Near the mouth of the river a chunk of coastline extends into the river. > > You can see the result at > http://www.informationfreeway.org/?lat=53.70&lon=-0.599&zoom=12 > > cheers, Chris > > >> >> What is the best way to get large rivers rendered properly for now? >> >> Thanks for your help ... >> Ulf >> >> -- >> Ulf Mehlig >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Sent from Yahoo! Mail. > A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
