<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:19 PM, malenki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm_@malenki.ch" target="_blank">osm_@malenki.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Am Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:00:59 +0200<br>
schrieb Christoph Hormann <<a href="mailto:chris_hormann@gmx.de">chris_hormann@gmx.de</a>>:<br>
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</div>I won't use a tag which I don't consider useful.<br>
For me it is:<br>
waterway=* == flowing water<br>
natural=water == not flowing (though the most water bodies have some current)<br>
<div class=""><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Tags water=pond or water=lake may not be immediately view-able on the map, but they do convey information (assuming there's also a natural=water tag on the feature).<div>
<br></div><div>water=lake - large natural bodies of water</div><div>water=reservoir - large man-made bodies of water</div><div>water=pond - small man-made bodies of water</div><div><br></div><div>The only ambiguity is the vagueness of small vs. large, and local naming conventions (something is named Lake Blah, when it is technically a reservoir because it's man-made - Big Creek Lake in southern Alabama, for example).</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I'd vote for removing the double tagged water=lake;pond since it's redundant and should be one or the other, not both, and ensuring that each feature had a natural=water tag. Mappers at a later time could determine whether or not to add a water=lake or water=pond (or water=reservoir) tag to the feature.</div>
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