On Jan 12, 2008 4:45 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >it seems a logical one to me, we need to differentiate between lakes > > >and rivers, canals, etc. <snip> > > duplicates natural=water which is very, very widely used - 9421 times > > no problem, they can all be changed very simply i should think.
To provide some counter-weight: 99% of of things don't care about whether it's a lake/reservoir/canal/river. Hence I would suggest a top-level tag natural=water for *all* land/water boundaries (except sea I suppose) and a seperate tag waterbody=lake/foo/bar to differentiate. I suppose you could say: Won't somebody please think of the renderers! The world has an infinite diversity and we can't go inventing new tag combinations for all of them. We need to think hierarchically, start with the real defining characteristics: land/sea/road/rail/etc and use subtags for the finegrained stuff. Let's face it: 99% of users won't care about what the body of water is used for, so there's no reason why it should be a top-level tag. It's also more flexible, because then people can invent their own waterbody=foo combinations without worrying that people won't know what it means. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
