Michael wrote: >Both lakes and ponds are standing or slow-moving bodies of water. There are no official or scientific differences >between lakes and ponds. Lakes are larger than ponds, but size is relative. What would be considered a pond in one >region might be considered a lake in another.
I totally agree with this characterization. I do most of my mapping of rural Alaska using satellite imagery, for many reasons, not the least being that I cannot ever visit these wild and dauntingly remote places to check out water flows, depths, etc. My criteria for deciding between lake and pond are therefore mostly based on size. Sometimes a lake-sized water body is obviously very shallow and so I tag it as a pond. Sometimes I pause and question my choice because it is almost impossible to know for sure what's appropriate. I also do a lot of mapping in Thailand where there are thousands of little man-made ponds, perhaps more properly reservoirs, used to supply water for thirsty rice paddies. These I always tag as ponds. My 2 cents Dave On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:05 AM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Michael Patrick <geodes...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> The proper name of the water feature usually has nothing to do with >> these, though. Our area has numerous 'Lake Something's which are >> impoundments that barely would would classify as ponds, basically created >> by real estate developers as bulldozer scrapes into the local water table. >> > > A hydromorphologicaly-aware mapper will tag one of those as: > > name=Lake Exaggeration > natural=water > water=pond > note=Damned real-estate developers did it again. My bathtub is bigger > than this. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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