How does one go about modifying a tag? I've found there's a well-defined procedure for creating and refining tags, but it seems that anyone could just go and arbitrarily redefine a tag, and a tag would then shift in meaning from the original meaning... do I just modify it and see if someone reverts it? This seems a little anarchic!
Notably, the rendering for drain looks (albeit with no scale visible) as I'd like, in that it's a thin blue line. I've not heard ditches called drains, though they're commonly causes Dykes round here (as opposed to the female sort). I decided on ditches as there's already a (misnamed) dyke tag - the author meant dike as it turns out, though the similarity could be confusing. There's a marked differnece (in my eyes) between a ditch connected to a river (a drain) and a ditch connected to another ditch/pumphouse/nothing at all - a ditch might well be a good 6 feet below water level, and isn't tidal, and is commonly freshwater, whereas a offshoot of the river round here would be tidal. I don't know if ditches/drains matters enough to most people to be worth another tag - boat=yes or not differentiates for most possible users, and a water way is just a water landmark to most! Tristan 2008/9/1 Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tristan Scott wrote: > >> Maybe modifying and clarifying the scope of the drain tag would do? > > Yes, good idea. > > I'm thinking in particular of the Middle Level and the Witham > Navigable Drains which drain the surrounding fenlands, a bit like the > ones you're referring to (though much of the ML and WND would need to > be augmented with boat=yes). These are generally referred to as > 'drains', not ditches. > > cheers > Richard > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Tristan Scott BSc(Hons) Yare Valley Technical Services 01603 858441 07837 205829 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
