On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:20:03 -0700 Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 6:05 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It has the disadvantage that it doesn't make sense. At least not > > to me, as a native speaker of > > British English (which is the normal language for defining OSM > > tags) and as somebody who > > doesn't work in sanitation. Maybe a British sanitation engineer > > would use basin or a non-British > > speaker would use basin but I most definitely would not. > > > > Firstly, I don't think of a settling tank or clarifier as a basin. > > A porcelain object for washing hands > > in a bathroom is a basin and a geological depression in which water > > collects is a basin, and a > > man-made depression for holding water might be a basin but a > > clarifier isn't. I can see the > > commonalities in all of those but a clarifier just isn't a basin. > > Other than bathroom porcelain, > > a basin requires a depression in the ground. > > > > There are some wastewater treatment facilities that use settling > basins. The ones I've mapped all use more advanced technology. Where > I have heard of settling basins is those used by large farm > operations. The one that comes to mind is during the flooding in the > US Southeast where pig farmers settling basins were covered by flood > waters which resulted in tons of waste flowing into the area. > > If the wastewater plant used settling basins then they should be > mapped as such. But as I said, all of the plants I've seen use > clarifiers and digesters. You should visit the other side of the state, then. Virtually every small town here has a group of two to six settling ponds, usually on the downwind side. -- Mark _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
