Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread stevea
I'll (blushingly) ask the glass be looked at as half-full. ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 10:18, stevea wrote: > "Brevity is the soul of wit" is true for reasons. > & when you're only brief half the time ... ? :-) Thanks Graeme ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread stevea
On Feb 11, 2023, at 3:53 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 05:10, Martin Koppenhoefer > wrote: > A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or > seasonally” > > But does "seasonally" include "maybe once every 20 years"? Climate change

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 12 Feb 2023 at 05:10, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently > or seasonally” > But does "seasonally" include "maybe once every 20 years"? Thanks Graeme ___ Tagging mailing list

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread stevea
I'm making popcorn and watching, mostly. But going with Tod and others, it's shaping up as interesting. I've been to many playas and such. Some are wetlands, some are not. Some are mud and some are year-round-sand or dirt and likely desert or at least semi-arid (and as far as I know OSM

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 11 Feb 2023, at 12:06, Jez Nicholson wrote: > > They aren't wetlands as they aren't wet all the time. for wetlands is isn’t a requirement they be wet all the time, the first sentence in the OpenStreetMap definition is: “ A wetland is a land area that is saturated with

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Tod Fitch
In the deserts of the southwest United States there are features that could probably use similar help in tagging. In California they usually have “Dry Lake” in the name (assuming they are named). At least one in Arizona has “Playa” (Spanish for beach or shallow) in its name. From your

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Warin
On 11/2/23 22:03, Jez Nicholson wrote: The UK has plenty of areas around the coast that are deliberately not protected by flood defences so they would soak up the power of an intermittent flood. Are these a similar thing? They aren't wetlands as they aren't wet all the time. From

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Jez Nicholson
The UK has plenty of areas around the coast that are deliberately not protected by flood defences so they would soak up the power of an intermittent flood. Are these a similar thing? They aren't wetlands as they aren't wet all the time. On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, 10:52 Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com>

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Warin
On 11/2/23 21:23, Jez Nicholson wrote: I see what you are saying, but 'dry swamp' feels slightly odd. Is there something like 'intermittent wetland' that is more appropriate? It is 'slightly odd' ... in that it is not found in populated parts of the globe. OSM tagging is written mostly by

Re: [Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Jez Nicholson
I see what you are saying, but 'dry swamp' feels slightly odd. Is there something like 'intermittent wetland' that is more appropriate? On Sat, 11 Feb 2023, 10:11 Warin, <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ‘dry swamp’ has no apparent way to tag it. These will not be found in > Europe, just as

[Tagging] dry swamps

2023-02-11 Thread Warin
The ‘dry swamp’ has no apparent way to tag it. These will not be found in Europe, just as you don’t find deserts there. They have occasional water, not seasonal, not yearly but, say, between 5 to 20 years they have water. As such they do not satisfy the OSM swamp definitions at all. See