On 16 May 2008, at 16:50, Alex Mauer wrote: > Karl Newman wrote: >> 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. > > I've never heard a non-navigable waterway referred to as a canal, here > in the Midwest USA. I've only what you're describing called a > "drainage > ditch" (as you said) or "irrigation ditch" depending on their intended > purpose. "ditch" is IMO a reasonable combination of the two (since the > intended purpose is generally not immediately obvious) >
I have the only remaining part of the Croydon canal near me. It is only a few hundred metres long, and is now left to nature. A century ago the other parts of the canal were filled in and changed to railway. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
