Hi! New mapper here. I’ve loved making hand drawn fictional maps for a long time, but have never touched any software like this. I’m trying to put a nice coastal city in West Commonia, a bit south of Damon’s City. So I start drawing a nice looking harbor, and tagged it as coastline. The problem is that I don’t know how to integrate my harbor with the already existing coastline. How do you guys do it? EDIT: Note I have not uploaded this to the main map yet.
Discussion
Comment from isleño on 20 June 2017 at 18:05
You can create a harbor using a closed polygon. Just make sure the harbor’s seaward edge runs along the coastline, and make sure the polygon is tagged as “natural=water” — not “natural=coastline”!!! — otherwise you may flood the entire island.
Alternatively, you can create a harbor by moving nodes of the existing coastline, and/or adding new nodes along the existing coastline. Just make sure not to damage the coastline in any way, because again you may flood the entire island.
For more info see FAQ: Why is everything flooded?