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<p>On 2017-09-15 20:34, Viking wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">On the contrary, now I think that we must made explicit all water sources and do not use at all waterbody. Stream, river, lake, pond, sea, ocean are clear enough to be understood by an occasional mapper and correspond to existing tags. Instead, to undestand what waterbody would mean, mappers and users should read the wiki explanation.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">The distinctions given in the wiki between a stream and a river, and between a pond and a lake, are far from objective. Just because the words are familiar does not in itself guarantee good-quality (objectively and verifiably correct) tagging.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Apparently there is a scientific distinction between a pond and a lake, based on whether sunlight reaches the bottom. I also found a reference to a river/stream distinction based on stream order.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">//colin</div>
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