On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:45:31PM +0100, malenki wrote: > I am working on Lake Nasser* and can predict that after enhancing > it's shore the resulting MP will be quite big. > Based on what I have done so far I'd expect an Multipolygon (MP) with > about 10.000 Members and an outline of 14.000 km length. A relation of > this size is no good idea in hindsight of maintainability and conflicts > due simultaneous edits. > So I thought about mapping it as coastline (again) and had a look at > how other big lakes were mapped.
thanks for the interesting analysis. > Now my questions: > > What do you think is the better way to map an updated Lake Nasser? > Make another MMP (Monster MultiPolygon) or > map it as coastline (which is discouraged in the wiki)? coastline. Everything else would seem like a nightmare and I do not think there is any reasonable ground for the distinction of coastlines according to lake/ocean type. Perhaps we should be a bit more bold and map all bigger lakes with coastline unless they have been already mapped differently. Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk