On 3/10/2015 10:37 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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Am 03.10.2015 um 11:14 schrieb johnw <jo...@mac.com>:
The people who live with washes and wadis call them washes and wadis and
representing them in OSM as a river is ignoring regional conventions and trying
to shoehorn temperate ideas into desert tagging. And rendering them like a
river makes a crappier map.
I agree. Actually I believe wadis should be tagged as waterway=wadi while
washes could get waterway=wash (don't know or care because there aren't any
around here).
The only wadi I 'know' is the one in "Lawrence of Arabia" Wadi Rum ... I
suspect others have as much knowledge of them and as many local features named wadi.
Thus I don't use this tag
We don't call buddhist temples churches, why should we call washes wadi?
A wadi is a particular kind of intermittent watercourse and not a universal
word for any similar kind.
As I don't really know what a wash nor a wadi is I would not say what is is ...
I'd leave it to others with more knowledge.
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