Hi,
recently someone mapped a lot of fountains here, so tried to find out
how they should be tagged. But I failed.
I found both natural=water or landuse=basin to be in use for those
features, but both have their flaws.
natural=water
- wiki page doesn't specify, but details, examples and name imp
Those pools are a part of the fountain, so I would tag the whole area as a
fountain. The part where the water comes out, and the pool are one entity,
one doesn't have any use without the other.
Janko Mihelić
2012/10/1 Ronnie Soak
> Hi,
>
> recently someone mapped a lot of fountains here, so tri
2012/10/1 Ronnie Soak :
> natural=water
>
> - wiki page doesn't specify, but details, examples and name imply the
> use for a natural feature
> - but it is used for all kinds of water features, man made or natural
> (more of a landcover-like tag)
> - not able to get specific usage figures from tagi
2012/10/1 Ronnie Soak :
> recently someone mapped a lot of fountains here, so tried to find out
> how they should be tagged. But I failed.
> I found both natural=water or landuse=basin to be in use for those
> features, but both have their flaws.
>
> natural=water
>
> - wiki page doesn't specify, b
2012/10/1 Martin Koppenhoefer :
>>
>> natural=water
>>
>> - wiki page doesn't specify, but details, examples and name imply the
>> use for a natural feature
>
>
> IMHO natural=water is flawed, for several reasons: it is not a
> geographical feature (that would be natural=lake, etc.), but it is
> al
If this pool of water has the main purpose of feeding the fountain I would
consider this to be a landuse=reservoir for the following reasons:
* Its wiki description fits: "Man made body of stored water. May be covered
or uncovered.")
* It has a well defined, used and even rendered subtag of reservo
2012/10/1 Ronnie Soak :
> 2012/10/1 Martin Koppenhoefer :
> I can't follow you here: You say that natural=water is flawed, that
> there might be fountains without water and that a fountain might
> consist of several materials besides water.
> And still you recommend to tag the whole area as natural