What I try to say is that the original proposal tagged rivers according to their relative importance in a country.
What's the criterium to know if a river is "major" inside a country? Is it its occurrence in the school curriculum? Iregua, which is a very small river (5 m width on its end) was in the "Spanish river list" I had to learn in the school. I learned about Garonne in highschool, when we reached the "European rivers" standard. But I only knew it crossed Spain when, at the age of 30, I visited a remote village and found a river named "Garona" that flew to France. (Here in Spain, education is very chauvinistic: I passed all my degree in literature without hearing a word about Shakespeare, Molière or Goethe. Latin-american authors, despite of writing our same language, are being removed from the curriculum). El 16/10/2017 16:06, "Christoph Hormann" <o...@imagico.de> escribió: > On Monday 16 October 2017, José G Moya Y. wrote: > > Ilya, > > As some people said, river "size" is ambiguous. If you're talking > > about relative size of a river in term of rivers of the same country, > > Ebro and Tajo are "major" rivers in Spain. If you're talking about > > absolute size (compared with rivers in the world), Ebro and Tajo are > > small rivers. On the same hand, Garonne starts as a "minor" river in > > Spain and ends as a "major" river of France and Europe. > > For better understanding: What the proposal tries to specify is an > importance rating for rivers based on their name, i.e. the Garonne > would by definition have the same rating everywhere it is named > Garonne. If the upper part of a river is named differently than the > lower part it would be a different river - hence potentially a > different importance rating (like Nile - Blue Nile/White Nile or > Rhein - Vorderrhein/Hinterrhein). > > This has very little to do with the size of a river as a local property > (like the width or the discharge) which a mapper would normally use as > a basis for tagging the size of a river. > > -- > Christoph Hormann > http://www.imagico.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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