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Cyclemap problems with waterways

What's with most of the northern Willamette Valley appearing flooded here?

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.253&lon=-122.795&zoom=9&layers=00B0FTF

Posted by Paul Johnson at Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:47:51 +0000 in English (English)

Comment from axodys at Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:15 +0000

I recently notice a similar problem here in Spokane on the CycleMap where the Spokane River has seemingly escaped its bounds and flooded a good portion of the Spokane Valley:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.253&lon=-122.795&zoom=9&layers=00B0FTF


Comment from axodys at Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:52:38 +0000

Put the wrong link up. This should work better:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.6733&lon=-117.3389&zoom=12&layers=00B0FTF


Comment from JigPu at Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:35:05 +0000

I may have once flooded the entire US (only in osmarender) by sticking an apparently bad tag onto the Siletz River.

A few days after adding "natural=water" onto the riverbank I randomly went to the tiles@home map and saw everyone was drowning. I knew that it hadn't always been that way, but assumed it was the result of somebody else's waterway edits. After we remained flooded for quite some time though, I removed the tag "just in case" and lo, the waters receded and the great flood was over.

Though T@H doesn't show any massive flooding in Oregon, it could still be a similar tagging issue.


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