On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 16:38:52 +1000 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/10/2015 4:23 PM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:14:15 +0900 > > johnw <jo...@mac.com> wrote: > > > >>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> suggests replacement of > >>> waterway=wadi and waterway=drystream > >>> with > >>> waterway=river or stream > >> This is idiotic. > >> > >> I’m going to start tagging Interstate 5 in San Diego as an > >> intermittent river that just happens to be a motorway 99.95 percent > >> of it’s life. I have hydroplaned down it for a good mile or so, so > >> I’m going to say that is good enough to constitute an intermittent > >> river. > >> > >> > >> A wash/wadi is a feature created /changed by water but used and > >> navigated as a dry feature. it very very rarely has water. > >> > >> I’m guessing the people who are interested in tagging > >> “drystreams” (the fisrt time I have heard that), are not really > >> familiar with what a wadi or a wash is, nor have spent time in them > >> during their dominant dry state (nor seen them catastrophically > >> flood). > > Where wiki recommends converting all waterway=wadi to > > waterway=river or stream with intermittent=yes? > > > > On http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Dwadi there is > > "For intermittent waterways use waterway=river/waterway=stream + > > intermittent=yes. For valleys natural=valley" > True .. > but on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:waterway > "It has been recommended to stop using this tag. Use a combination of > /waterway=river/ and /intermittent=yes/ instead." > > Looks like that has been there since 2008. (a) Good catch. I attempted to improve it in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:waterway&diff=1224534&oldid=1224466 (b) Thanks to overly complex templating real history is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:waterway&action=history _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
