On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Bégin, Daniel
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We then decided to use the concept of high/low water levels instead. The 
> Permanency attribute indicates if the feature represents a low water level 
> (1-permanent) or an area between the low and high water level 
> (2-Intermittent). In this case (2), we don't modify anymore a feature based 
> on the actual water limit, as long the water limits is within the 
> Intermittent feature.
[ ... ]
> I hope I made it clearer.

Thank you for this information, Daniel.

> Concerning Osm, there is no water level definition for the moment but there 
> is a proposed feature that match perfectly (*)!
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Water_cover
>
> If accepted, there will be a perfect - and easy - match between Canvec and 
> Osm water body definition. Can this proposed feature be moved forward? Should 
> we use this feature even if not accepted yet?

Sure, we should use it.  That proposal has been around since 2007.
This sometimes happens with things on the wiki; people move on and
start using the tag but the wiki lies unchanged.  OsmDoc shows us that
the tag is already in use.

http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/water/#values

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