OpenStreetMap
I'm starting to add Nautical Detail to my local area.
I wonder if anyone else has also been doing this?
Some thoughts;
- closing an area
- Islands
- Marshes
- rapids, falls
- hazards
- water depth
- shoals
- reefs
- navigation aids
- compass rose
Discussion
Comment from Circeus on 13 March 2009 at 20:37
Hey, you broke the map! You CANNOT make natural=water not be an closed area, that breaks every element of display.
If you want to show which area can be boated, your best guess is probably to draw a line in the middle of the water areas (which you will concurrent use for naming the river, because area=water riverway=river will not display names as far as I can remember), and use THAT to mark boatability of the river. As it is, the display practically unusable!
Comment from Sensei Marc on 14 March 2009 at 00:22
Now be nice, I, like many others are new to this!
First, How did I break the map? Please show me.
Comment from Circeus on 14 March 2009 at 04:47
osm.org/?lat=45.3614401272159&lon=-75.8256484001443&zoom=14
You basically turned what should have been "this area is water, it should be blue" into series of "this line is a river, it should be traced in blue, and everything on both sides of it is ground, and should be gray", so that we have "rivers" running along the shores and across the actual river...
Comment from Sensei Marc on 14 March 2009 at 12:52
That is what I'm attempting to fix.
First I did not make it worse, so please do not accuse people of breaking the map.
The outline has been made previously, it was not blue as it should be, I was only attempting to fix it.
My understanding is growing, but I'm still a little foggy about how to create bodies of water.
Instead of flamming people, perhaps a step by step description of how to create a river or lake would be more helpfull.