In the year 2020 waterway=rapids has been added a couple hundred times, and the other two tags whitewater:section_grade and whitewater:rapid_grade have been used about 100 times each: https://taghistory.raifer.tech/#***/whitewater:rapid_grade/&***/whitewater:section_grade/&***/waterway/rapids (zoom in to the most recent yet)
I think both tagging methods have their use. The tag waterway=rapids is great to add to a node to specify that there are rapids here, and the others are good for expert kayakers and rafters who are able to assess the rapid grade. I don't know enough about the subject to make a proposal to clear things up, but the existing tags seem to be fine. -- Joseph Eisenberg On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:35 PM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > > > Dec 16, 2020, 19:27 by kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com: > > The last time I looked, there was no non-deprecated way to map the > information that I had. > > That is sign of bad tagging scheme. > > I now see that @jeisenbe has restored the `waterway=rapids` tag to the > Wiki. > > Is it enough? > > I asked here on the mailing list, and the only answers that I got were > along the lines of "then don't map it." So for several years I haven't > attempted to map rapids. The ones I know of and want to render, I maintain > separately from OSM, because the previous discussion had caused me to label > this feature mentally as, "OSM doesn't want this mapped." > > :( Hopefully this can be fixed so this will not happen. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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