I agree with your revised suggestion of swamp, intermittent as a closer 
approximation of Goyders Lagoon.
Stephen.

> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 at 12:43 AM
> From: Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>
> To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Goyder's Lagoon
>
> Possibly too hasty?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyder_Lagoon
> 
> Wikipedia has it as an ephemeral swamp ..:-)
> 
> Would that be better? Tag it as swamp, intermittent ???
> After all the area is not really covered in water .. water flows through it 
> but not really covers it ???
> 
> Not certain if I'd call ephemeral?
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/12/18 10:17, cleary wrote:
> > Agree completely
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, at 10:02 AM, Warin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I have made a rough entry for Goyder's Lagoon - South Aust. above Lake
> >> Eyre - about thesame size.
> >> The boundary is rough because, as you would expect, the rain fall
> >> determines where it is and that varies from fall to fall.
> >> Yes, it is tagged intermittent.
> >>
> >> I make the comment here so those surprised by it's sudden appearance
> >> have some idea of what it is. ~ 80% of the water headed to Lake Eyre
> >> disappears on its way there .. and this is one of the major places where
> >> that disappearance takes place. So I think it needs some representation
> >> on the map.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
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