On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 09:51:31AM -0400, Kevin Kenny wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 6:38 PM François Lacombe > <fl.infosrese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To me, waterway=* should only get values to map linear water courses for > > the routable hydrographic network. > > Newer tagging with natural=water sounds ok, except for artificial water > > features. > > I'm not so keen of natural=water over a man made irrigation canal, unless > > there is no artificial water, even in artificial man made structures > > natural=* is a lost cause, and part of the issue there is that there > are a good many natural=* tags that don't have neutral equivalents.
+1 > If a mapper can't say, 'there's water here', 'there are trees here', > 'there is grass here' without doing research on human intent and > purpose for the landcover, navigability of the waterways, there's > something wrong with the data model. +1 > The idea that waterway=* must be routable is, frankly, a new one to > me. that idea is nonsense.. there was never the assertion that waterway=ditch,stream be navigable. Time to check reality .. maybe natural=water + water=XXXX is good for many things but obviously most mappers did not like it enough for XXXX=river. This is not saying the idea was bad but there are also practical concerns when mixing the two schemes and most people just don't like the added complexity of a mixed solution when everything can be handled with waterway=riverbanks at least as well. So the simplest would be to document in the wiki that the idea didn't catch up with rivers. Regarding landcover.. don't have time for this discussion now;) Richard _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging