I now notice that I read the German Wikipedia entry for Wadi, which is plainly different form the English one. My fault. The English Wikipedia defines Wadi mainly as a valley, wheras the German on as a normally dry water course.
On 16 January 2015 at 13:02, Richard Z. <ricoz....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:41:26AM +0900, johnw wrote: > > I strongly disagree. A wadi is usually only an active river through very > rare flash flood events, and almost never any other time. Entire biomes > are defined by the presence of (and situated in) a wadi. > > > > how about reading wikipedia? > << > Wadi (Arabic: وادي wādī) is the Arabic term traditionally referring to a > valley. In some cases, it may refer to a dry (ephemeral) riverbed that > contains water only during times of heavy rain or simply an intermittent > stream. > >> > > I consider a wadi a geologic feature. In addition to the above wadis are > expected > to carry underground water. > > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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