Thanks, Brian, for taking the lead on this. I generally agree with the overall direction of the proposal. There's a lot of details on the proposal page but I guess we can discuss them on the wiki talk page.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 10:58 PM Brian M. Sperlongano <[email protected]> wrote: > A proposal[1] to clarify the tagging of reservoirs, lakes, and ponds is > now open for comments. > > This proposal: > > 1. Deprecates landuse=reservoir > 2. Provides definitions for: > a. water=reservoir > b. water=lake > c. water=pond > > It is clear from various multiple discussions on this topic that there are > still open questions from the original 2011 water=* proposal, as well as > the exact definition of a reservoir, and how they differ from lakes and > ponds. Previous discussions indicated that there is community support for > maintaining a distinction between lake and pond, rather than eliminating or > merging these concepts. > > The definitions posed in this proposal were developed with the help of > considerable community input over the last week, and I want to thank the > numerous folks that collaborated on this. The real world presents many > edge cases that make it challenging to come up with clear definitions, but > that should not prevent us from trying. > > The goal in these definitions is to *describe* rather than *prescribe* how > reservoir, lake, and pond are actually tagged. This necessarily involves > some degree of subjectivity between the categories, and the proposed > definitions leave it to mappers to make these subjective decisions when a > body of water exhibits some characteristics of more than one of these terms. > > As this topic has been discussed ad nauseam for nearly a decade, I hope > that this proposal, discussion, and subsequent vote will allow us to put > this issue to rest, and/or document the level of community support that > exists for different tagging schemes. > > [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Reservoir > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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