I am surprised nobody has suggested a pondness or lakicity scale yet. Best, Peter Elderson
Op do 12 nov. 2020 om 02:46 schreef stevea <[email protected]>: > If we're going to do "this:" > > So perhaps we could create a new tag water=natural_pond for small, > natural or semi-natural lakes which are currently tagged as water=pond, and > water=artificial_pond or water=man_made_pond for the majority of water=pond > features which are clearly not natural, such as ponds in gardens. > > it seems we should ponder (sorry, couldn't resist) the myriad > possibilities for ponds both artificial AND natural and make a formal > proposal that "covers all cases," at least as best we can in a formal > proposal. This would clarify (sorry, couldn't resist) what they're all > "used for," as in settling in the case of a wastewater treatment plant, > decorative as in somebody's backyard garden, natural, as in "shallow, > nature-created, not-deep-enough to be called lake..." and so on. Don't > forget to consider (and document) potential overlap with things like > leisure=swimming_pool and possibly others. > > We might get a good start on doing this in a talk page, but I think it > would greatly benefit from the thought that goes into a formal proposal: > worldwide consideration of the semantic space being described, rather clear > syntax and namespaces described, how to decide one from the other, > linguistic differences (as Joseph mentioned there can be a flattening in > particular languages that might deserve extra clarity), how to migrate from > existing tagging to the proposed tagging, and all the rest that formal > proposals treat (what wiki need to update, et cetera). > > I admire Joseph's "tossing here" what he wrote, as it gets things started, > but I believe the subject is much richer than this. > > It would also focus efforts by those who care and in as much detail and in > one place as such a specific topic deserves. While I don't write this to > discourage posts to this list (I don't, as this list is a valuable place to > discuss), I have also noticed a trend towards formal proposals. "Ponds" > seems like an excellent candidate for one. > > SteveA > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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