OpenStreetMap waterways for higher zoom levels (z9 and more)
and Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines for low zoom levels (z3 - z8).
Linestrings without a name or which are too short are filtered
out at low zoom levels.
Till z11 there is river
class only, in z12 there is also canal
generated,
starting z13 there is no generalization according to class
field applied.
Waterways do not have a subclass
field.
Fields
name
The OSM name
value of the waterway.
The name
field may be empty for NaturalEarth data or at lower zoom levels.
name_en
English name name:en
if available, otherwise name
.
name_de
German name name:de
if available, otherwise name
or name:en
.
class
The original value of the waterway
tag.
Possible values:
stream
river
canal
drain
ditch
brunnel
Mark whether way is a tunnel or bridge.
Possible values:
bridge
tunnel
intermittent
Mark with 1
if it is an intermittent waterway.
Possible values:
0
1