I currently working in Task 241 and would welcome some advice about tagging or even plotting a feature.
Running more or less across the middle of the Task square is a very wide and meandering feature, which if it had been full of water, I would have identified as a river. Having followed the discussion on Wadis and looking at the JOSM reference, it would appear that I should be using the tag waterway = river; intermittent = yes. However, I notice that it some places the bed of this feature is under cultivation, and assume therefore that its inundation is very intermittent. Given the reason for the mapping it feels as though this feature ought to be highlighted, not least because if the area is flooded, this feature could be considerably deeper than the surrounding area. Is it valid to tag it both in terms of an intermittent waterway, and also under cultivation ? As an aside - I was curious that in the Wadi debate the word "Donga" never came up. I had been familiar with this work in South Africa - the dictionary gives its definition as a washed out gulley and its origin as Afrikaans but borrowed from a pre-bantu source. Andrew -- Andrew Patterson The information contained in this e-mail and any files transmitted with it is confidential and intended for the addressee only.
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