On 27/07/15 20:55, Mike Thompson wrote: > I assumed that when the wiki spoke about "routable" it was referring to > the water flow rather than boat/ship/barge traffic. In any event, a > routing engine for boats could use the presence of a dam or weir > (combined with the absence of a lock) to deduce that ship navigation was > not possible.
'This way used should point in the direction of water flow' is only applicable to non-tidal flows, and reservoirs may well control water flow in a way that makes a 'water flow map' somewhat difficult to deduce. The use of 'routable network' is rather ambiguous, but this is little different to the problem of routing through other land based open areas where several waterway features link into an area of open water. The jury is still out on putting in all the paths through the area, but if there is a navigable route designated through a water body it should be drawn, but an imaginary link just showing water flow should not be necessary? Any routing process should be able to deduce the relation, there is no need to draw it. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
