Thanks. Actually, the example you gave uses the tagging Stephan suggested, that is, to tag the first node of a waterway with natural=spring. Apparently, the Thames rises from a spring. I found several other examples using Overpass Turbo and I think the tagging below is good
waterway=source name=Colville River It should work well for my needs. Dave On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 16:25 +0700, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > Taginfo shows 12 instances of a tag waterway:end=yes. It made me > > think a tagging scheme like the following might work to tag the node: > > > > waterway:start=yes > > name=Colville River > > The normal term is source, sometimes there is a monument. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2290436887#map=19/51.69406/-2.02959&; > layers=D > <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2290436887#map=19/51.69406/-2.02959&layers=D> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Head > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout@gmail. > > com> wrote: > > > >This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring" > > > node. > > > > > > Not in this case. If the stream started at a spring, that is a > > > place where water comes from the within the earth, that would > > > be fine but the Colville begins at the place where two smaller > > > streams come together to form a larger stream. Sometimes this new > > > stream will take the name of one or another of the small streams > > > from which it derives but often people chose to name the "new" > > > stream differently and choose a new name, as they did here. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Stephan Knauss <osm@stephans-serve > > > r.de> wrote: > > > > On 25.02.2017 04:28, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering if it's possible to tag in some meaningful way, > > > > > the place, > > > > > usually a node, where a river begins. It seems this would be of > > > > > interest > > > > > to people besides myself but I don't think there is currently a > > > > > way to > > > > > tag such a place. > > > > > > > > > > > > > This mentions to optionally add a role "spring" for the "spring" > > > > node. > > > > > > > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:waterway > > > > > > > > Is this usable? > > > > > > > > Stephan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Tagging mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dave Swarthout > > > Homer, Alaska > > > Chiang Mai, Thailand > > > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dave Swarthout > > Homer, Alaska > > Chiang Mai, Thailand > > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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