> > Can you jump over a drain or ditch? I find the jump over information well > chosen for streams and most important property when actually walking in an > area and trying to find a way through.
In the place where I live drainage ditches are 1-5 meters wide and you can hardly jump over them. Even if they are 1m wide you would not risk jumping over them because they are located in wetland and have swampy banks. They usually have a lot of culverts to cross them over. Somehow it is not satisfactory to distinguish irrigation from drainage for > lined watercourses on the main level You are right, irrigation ditches can be lined along their way to a field but when on a field they may be unlined to let water soak into the land. Drainage ditches are always unlined because they collect water from land. Drains are always lined (or should be lined on good terms) because they carry liquid away without letting it soak into the ground. If you find the above statements correct (I don't know, may be in other countries it works differently), then the "lined" characteristic lets you distingish between drainage ditches and drains easily. The only thing we need to resolve yet is to let irrigation ditches be linied. Here is how we can complement the definition of ditch to respect this. ditch - Small artificial free flow waterways used for irrigating or draining land as well as for deviding land. Irrigation ditches can be lined or unlined, drainage ditches are usually unlined. Consider using waterway=canal for large irrigation or land drainage channels. Consider using waterway=drain for lined superflous liquid drainage channels. PS: I'm not a native English speaker, so probably someone could formulate it in a more beautiful way. Cheers, Eugene ср, 16 янв. 2019 г. в 13:17, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]>: > > > sent from a phone > > > On 16. Jan 2019, at 10:39, Eugene Podshivalov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > No need to introduce any new tags. > > > While I mostly agree with your interpretations, there are still some > problems: > what about lined irrigation channels? > > Can you jump over a drain or ditch? I find the jump over information well > chosen for streams and most important property when actually walking in an > area and trying to find a way through. > > Somehow it is not satisfactory to distinguish irrigation from drainage for > lined watercourses on the main level, but not for others (ditches and > canals). > > I’d say the main issue is with “drain” because if we’d define it for > irrigation as well it would be an oxymoron > > > Cheers, Martin > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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