Christoph Hormann wrote:
One thing that bothers me about this is that with the new tagging
scheme for rivers (natural=water + water=river) there is no
distinction between flowing and standing bodies of water unless there
is a water=* tag and here this information - while being included in
the original import - gets lost with the removal of that tag.
What was in the original import can be seen in:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/73966050/history
There's "gnis:ftype LakePond" but no "water=*". As regards the "new
scheme" anyone processing water data is going to have to cope with
existing data containing "natural=water" and "waterway=*" anyway, so
this proposed change (removing the "Lake;Pond" tags) doesn't introduce a
new problem.
Let's not forget - it's an import - no-one has actually surveyed these
water bodies so we don't know whether a particular one is a best
described as a "lake" or a "pond" (that's assuming there's nothing that
can be read from "gnis:fcode" of course, and even if it could, that's
still an antique survey presumably about as relevant as the TIGER data).
Cheers,
Andy
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