<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" class="">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><pre style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">suggests replacement of </pre><pre style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">waterway=wadi and waterway=drystream</pre><pre style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">with </pre><pre style="font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">waterway=river or stream </pre></div></blockquote></div>This is idiotic. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m going to start tagging Interstate 5 in San Diego as an intermittent river that just happens to be a motorway 99.95 percent of it’s life. I have hydroplaned down it for a good mile or so, so I’m going to say that is good enough to constitute an intermittent river. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A wash/wadi is a feature created /changed by water but used and navigated as a dry feature. it very very rarely has water.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m guessing the people who are interested in tagging “drystreams” (the fisrt time I have heard that), are not really familiar with what a wadi or a wash is, nor have spent time in them during their dominant dry state (nor seen them catastrophically flood). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Javbw</div></body></html>