Karl Newman wrote: > Both are created by man. A canal is normally navigable and a drain > is not. A > canal is for carrying goods and people, a drain is for transporting > water > much like a river but the drain has been dug by man rather than nature. > Drains can be anything from quite narrow watercourses to very large > constructions depending on how much water they carry. > > Wow, that's not obvious to the casual (non-UK) observer. In the US, the > usage of "canal" is different. They're almost never navigable, and even > small drainage ditches are commonly called "canals". Almost no-one here > would call any kind of waterway a "drain". Definitely clarify that on > the Wiki.
In the US am I right in thinking that storm water drains may only have actual water in them under flood conditions. From what I remember of car chases in films ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://home.lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://home.lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
