`osm-river-basins`: Website to show how are rivers in OSM connected

Updates:

I want to add all streams in the world. but that needs so much memory that it gets killed. I’m continuing to refactor and improve the code to support it.

I notice this situation when trying to track down gaps. There are tagging suggestions for tagging “no there is no one name here”.

I’ve changed the code to look at the existence of any name or name:* tag, so those ways without a name will not be excluded.

To link across languages, it now groups based on the wikidata tag, if it exists, and then falls back to the name tag. For waterways which cross languages, just add the wikidata tag to all the parts.

I then discovered this doesn’t work for the river Rhine, as only a small part of the ways have wikidata tags. :weary::joy::sob:

(yes, I know about relations)


Thanks to all the people who are using this, it’s very encouraging. I can already see that the data is much better than it was when I started. It’s great to see that if you surface errors to OSMers, they will fix it and make the map data better. :slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:

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