I am getting a foot vs hiking feeling. Everybody knows a difference, nobody has the same difference. In the end, it does not matter.
Mvg Peter Elderson > Op 11 nov. 2020 om 16:02 heeft Brian M. Sperlongano <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > > > If the consensus is to go with a limnological definition - I think that's > fine. Let's lay out the limnological description of "pond" and "lake" and > let mappers sort out edge cases based on their best interpretation of the > definitions provided. That's no different than the wetland= tag in which > there are lots of edge cases in the real world that are not quite one or the > other. I assume there will be cases where "such and such pond" is properly > tagged water=lake and vice versa, but that's fine if there's a definition to > stand on. > > If we are going with a "what people call it" definition, then the distinction > is purely redundant and worse may not translate appropriately into other > languages which might have a different array of terms for such bodies of > water. > >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 8:30 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 13:12, Brian M. Sperlongano <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >> >>> Is it actually desirable to distinguish a "lake" from a "pond"? If so, >>> what is the difference? Is it just that a body of water is named "XYZ >>> Pond" versus "XYZ Lake"? If so, isn't water=pond versus water=lake derived >>> from and redundant with name? >> >> It's possible to make the distinction. It's not clear-cut. There are >> several >> definitions which are not entirely compatible with each other, but they >> have more similarities than differences. Edge cases are hard. >> >> See, for example: >> >> https://lakes.grace.edu/ponds-vs-lakes-whats-the-difference/ >> https://www.lakemat.com/whats-the-difference-between-a-lake-and-a-pond/ >> https://www.des.nh.gov/organization/commissioner/pip/factsheets/bb/documents/bb-49.pdf >> https://www.lakescientist.com/lake-facts/how-lakes-differ/ >> >> Most of them agree that lakes have aphotic zones (deep areas that receive >> no sunlight, preventing plants from growing there). But wave height, >> uniformity >> of temperature, and area of water may play a part. And, of course, there's >> what >> the locals call it. >>> >>> Is there a conceivable scenario where a data consumer or renderer would >>> care about the distinction between these two tags? >> >> Renderers will probably treat them identically A limnologist would find the >> distinction useful. >> >> There is also a distinction between pools and ponds. However, since pools >> are supplied by a spring or a stream, most can be distinguished by other >> water=* occurring in conjunction with them (a lot of the ponds I've mapped >> are actually pools). >> >> https://www.askdifference.com/pool-vs-pond/ >> >> -- >> Paul >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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