On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 16:25 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > Taginfo shows 12 instances of a tag waterway:end=yes. It made me > think a tagging scheme like the following might work to tag the node: > > waterway:start=yes > name=Colville River
The normal term is source, sometimes there is a monument. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2290436887#map=19/51.69406/-2.02959& layers=D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Head Phil (trigpoint) > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout@gmail. > com> wrote: > > >This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring" > > node. > > > > Not in this case. If the stream started at a spring, that is a > > place where water comes from the within the earth, that would > > be fine but the Colville begins at the place where two smaller > > streams come together to form a larger stream. Sometimes this new > > stream will take the name of one or another of the small streams > > from which it derives but often people chose to name the "new" > > stream differently and choose a new name, as they did here. > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Knauss <osm@stephans-serve > > r.de> wrote: > > > On 25.02.2017 04:28, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if it's possible to tag in some meaningful way, > > > > the place, > > > > usually a node, where a river begins. It seems this would be of > > > > interest > > > > to people besides myself but I don't think there is currently a > > > > way to > > > > tag such a place. > > > > > > > > > > This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring" > > > node. > > > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway > > > > > > Is this usable? > > > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Tagging mailing list > > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dave Swarthout > > Homer, Alaska > > Chiang Mai, Thailand > > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > > > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging