There are a lot of straightened rivers and streams all over the world. Would it make sense to tag the straightened sections as canal/ditch/drain rather than river/stream?
Cheers, Eugene пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 22:07, Eugene Podshivalov <yauge...@gmail.com>: > пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <hufkrat...@gmail.com>: > >> This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets, >> otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run. As far as I >> know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. Currently >> its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change that? What is the >> incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of "drain" from now on? I >> am not even sure that most mappers will notice the change on the wiki >> pages. > > In Belarus we have 45366 ditches and 93320 drains mapped. 90% of those > drains are drainage ditches (used for wet land drainage) because we have > swamps and wetlands everywhere. > You are right saying that the usage of "drain" increases, but as you see > from the statistics the usage is upside down because people perceive > "drainage ditches" and "drains" as one and the same thing. So why do we > need two tags for one and the same thing? > > Cheers, > Eugene > > > пн, 11 февр. 2019 г. в 19:19, Hufkratzer <hufkrat...@gmail.com>: > >> On 10.02.2019 14:57, Eugene Podshivalov wrote: >> >> [...} >> *Variant #2* >> Combine "ditch" and "drain" tags into one. >> [...} >> Personally I lean toward variant 2 [...} >> >> >> This would require to deprecate "drain" and remove it from the presets, >> otherwise we will continue to have 2 tags in the long run. As far as I >> know deprecating a tag is only possible if it's usage declines. Currently >> its usage increases steadily. How do you intend to change that? What is the >> incentive for the mapper to use "ditch" instead of "drain" from now on? I >> am not even sure that most mappers will notice the change on the wiki pages. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >
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