I knew them as sewage treatment ponds, but apparently there's a name for them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_stabilization_pond I feel like this a separate class of object that deserves its own tag, either within or separate from natural=water, or perhaps even subclassed as water=basin+basin=waste? On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 12:24 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > How should sewage treatment facilities be tagged, then? > > Isn't sewage 99% water? > > I think that most sewage treatment facilities in the USA include open > settling basins and I would use landuse=basin or water=basin + > natural=water for these: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/420075503 > > -- Joseph Eisenberg > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:55 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging < > tagging@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > >> >> >> >> Dec 17, 2020, 08:02 by dieterdre...@gmail.com: >> >> >> >> sent from a phone >> >> On 16. Dec 2020, at 17:52, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> You still have to distinguish marine water (outside of the >> natural=coastline) from inland waters, and distinguishing rivers from lakes >> is very important for proper rendering of many maps. >> >> >> >> and it seems landuse=reservoir is used for sewage as well: >> https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/reservoir_type=sewage >> >> is this appropriate for natural=water? >> >> No. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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