<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please, no "intermittent=ephemeral". Key intermittent was defined to have only a single valid value, <br></div>turning it into free-form tag is a bad idea.<br><br></div>Maybe intermittent=yes, intermittent:type=ephemeral?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-01-17 13:47 GMT+01:00 Richard Z. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricoz.osm@gmail.com" target="_blank">ricoz.osm@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 02:44:27PM -0800, Tod Fitch wrote:<br>
> Since the current term wadi can mean something more than the actual watercourse, why not drop it and use "ephemeral=yes" or "intermittent=ephemeral" on waterway=* to indicate that it carries water much less often than a waterway tagged with "intermittent=yes"?<br>
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</span>in principle yes. We need a value to indicate that surface water is<br>
intermittent or rare but there is a persistent underground waterflow<br>
following the riverbed which is a frequent feature of wadi's (unlike<br>
washes where this seems rare)<br>
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Richard<br>
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