On 7 January 2011 09:18, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm. It could get increasingly difficult to objectively distinguish between > all the different types of man-made water channel: canal, drain, aqueduct. > (Incidentally, taginfo shows 40,000 uses of "waterway=artificial" - anyone > know what that is?)
If you really want to know, try emailing a couple of the contributors that added them. > I guess the difference in the above is the purpose: transport, stormwater, > and drinking water respectively. How is one supposed to tag an irrigation > channel? Instead of drinking water I suggest you refer to it as potable water, that way you could also tag non-potable water, both are fairly similar, however one is supposedly safe for human consumption, the other isn't. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
