Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for "dry river"

2009-04-18 Thread Maarten Deen
Joseph Scanlan wrote: > We often call it a "wash" around here (Las Vegas, Nevada (in the > southwest US)). Wikipedia, however, redirected me to arroyo. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_(creek) > > Whatever name we use, it would be quite nice to have a tag for it. > Renderers, edito

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for "dry river"

2009-04-18 Thread Joseph Scanlan
Steve, We often call it a "wash" around here (Las Vegas, Nevada (in the southwest US)). Wikipedia, however, redirected me to arroyo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_(creek) Whatever name we use, it would be quite nice to have a tag for it. Renderers, editors, etc. can handle the loc

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag for "dry river"

2009-04-18 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Sábado, 18 de Abril de 2009, S Knox escribió: > I've just been doing some mapping in South East Spain (very near Europe's > only desert in fact in Tabernas, Almeria), where there are a lot of > riverbeds that only become rivers very occasionally after heavy rain. Yeah, "ramblas": http://es.wiki

[OSM-talk] Tag for "dry river"

2009-04-18 Thread S Knox
Hi, I've just been doing some mapping in South East Spain (very near Europe's only desert in fact in Tabernas, Almeria), where there are a lot of riverbeds that only become rivers very occasionally after heavy rain. An alternate term would be "wadi" I suppose. A very brief glance around the are