I've only heard tailings used to refer to the waste from mining. Regarding wastewater treatment, I'm assuming other reservoir_types discussed were things like sedimentation and aeration?
Brad On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected] > wrote: > Today we had a discussion on talk-de how to map the different pools > and reservoirs in a wastewater treatment plant. One of the tags that > came up was reservoir_type=tailings, referenced from this page: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dreservoir > > It is not completely clear, if this tag really was intended for > specific baisins inside a wasterwater treatment plant, or if this is a > feature in conjunction with mining ( > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Mining ). Maybe > we should be more specific here in the wording? IMHO we should try to > find a definition to put into the wiki which is in line with current > use of this tag in OSM. > > I also noticed that NHD uses the word tailings pond for the SHP keys > 43604 and 43605: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Hydrography_Dataset > for Reservoir (Disposal-Tailings Pond Earthen) and Reservoir > (Disposal-Tailings Pond Unspecified) > > Cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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