Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

Stephan's reference to Wikipedia helps to properly define source in this context : Wikipedia: confluence: In geography, a confluence is the meeting of two or more bodies of water. Also known as a conflux, it refers either to the point where a tributary joins a larger river, (main stem), or *where

Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

how about extending the waterway relation with a member role which can indicate either the "spring" or the "source" in case of a "creation" of a river by multiple tributary rivers? Not sure how it would best be called. Source? Origin? Confluence? Is there a specific hdyrology term for this?

Re: [Tagging] Mapping freeway stub ends?

... I have seen examples of stubs being constructed, end up as a ghost road for the next 3 or 4 decades, then suddenly are a thing that exists. I 5 opened in 1963 without ramps to I 84 east initially, but stubs existed. Yes we had a similar ghost exit on I-93 above Charles town/Somerville just

Re: [Tagging] Start of a river

That's interesting. I wonder if the tagging of tourism=attraction is totally appropriate but surely a waterway=source tag is. Presumably the mapper was trying to indicate that the source of that stream is where that node is. I'm going to start using the tag myself and let data consumers figure it

Re: [Tagging] A place where letters & parcels are sent to be sorted so they can be delivered?

> On Feb 25, 2017, at 11:33 PM, Philip Barnes wrote: > > I would imagine that is quite common in large towns and cities. Yea - all the main sorting facilities I know of - 2 in the US and 3 in Japan are HUGE buildings with many employees routing mail for hundreds of

Re: [Tagging] Mapping freeway stub ends?

sent from a phone > On 25 Feb 2017, at 21:08, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I tend to favor highway=construction, construction=* and possibly > abandoned=yes if it's partially built and could be finished later, but it's > left in-situ +1, I'd keep construction until the