Proposal talk:Ocean

what about natural=water? (plus name=*)

Since the approval of the approval of water=*, a combination of natural=water + water=ocean (or water=sea, respectively) makes a lot of sense. The only problem I see with oceans is that the coastlines are extremely long. The ocean multipolygons would be impossible to handle in normal editors, and the multipolygons would get damaged all the time. I have no idea how to scale the multipolygon approach to oceans, but I also have no idea for any other approach.

Same applies to continents. Islands (such as Great Britain) and peninsulas (such as the Iberian Peninsula) have been mapped as multipolgons, but nobody dares to map whole continents such as Asia as multipolygons. --Fkv (talk) 20:10, 4 December 2021 (UTC)