[OSM-talk] Tag for dry river
Hi, I've just been doing some mapping in South East Spain (very near Europe's only desert in fact in Tabernas, Almeria), where there are a lot of riverbeds that only become rivers very occasionally after heavy rain. An alternate term would be wadi I suppose. A very brief glance around the area shows some normal rivers, but do we have a tag for dry or seasonal rivers, which could be rendered using the standard blue dashed line on the map? If not then I'll propose one. Quite useful as clearly for the majority of the time these rivers are walkable and even drivable, although I imagine not all have clear paths or tracks. Regards Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for dry river
El Sábado, 18 de Abril de 2009, S Knox escribió: I've just been doing some mapping in South East Spain (very near Europe's only desert in fact in Tabernas, Almeria), where there are a lot of riverbeds that only become rivers very occasionally after heavy rain. Yeah, ramblas: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambla [...] but do we have a tag for dry or seasonal rivers, which could be rendered using the standard blue dashed line on the map? If not then I'll propose one. There is this proposal for seasonal=* that backs a while ago, but it never gained enough popularity. Feel free to work on it. -- -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for dry river
Joseph Scanlan wrote: We often call it a wash around here (Las Vegas, Nevada (in the southwest US)). Wikipedia, however, redirected me to arroyo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_(creek) Whatever name we use, it would be quite nice to have a tag for it. Renderers, editors, etc. can handle the localization. I'm reluctant to use seasonal to modify another water feature tag. You may agree after reading the Wikipedia page. I know it as a wadi, which I think is the Arabic term for it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi). In the Netherlands the term wadi is also used for man-made depressions in grassy areas of housing estates to store surplus rainwater during and after rainfalls. See http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_(infiltratievoorziening) and http://www.helden.nl/nl/html/algemeen/gemeenteloketten/balies/milieuafval/water/afkoppelen/afkoppelen.asp (one page down under the line Het water stroomt) for uses of this in the Netherlands. IMHO these are also useful to tag. My proposal is to use something like waterway=wadi for this, and have it applied to ways and areas. I'm also not too fond of a seasonal tag for this. Wadi's are quote common features in arid regions. Suggested rendering is a dotted line or a hatched area. That's how paper maps also display them. Regards, Maarten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
