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30. May 2018 07:23 by <a href="mailto:osm.tagging@thorsten.engler.id.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">osm.tagging@thorsten.engler.id.au</a>:<blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div class="WordSection1"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt ; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif">intermittent=summer</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt ; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif">In summer: explicit state = intermittent</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt ; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif">Otherwise: default state = not present</span></p></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>I strongly oppose bolting on additional unclear values to tag where 99.99% values are yes/no.</p><p><br /></p><p>See <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/intermittent#values" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/intermittent#values</a> 98.68% for yes, 1.31% for no,</p><p>all other values together 0.01%.</p><p><br /></p><p>Especially as intermittent=summer may easily mean:</p><p><br /></p><p>"intermittent during summer, water present otherwise"</p><p>"intermittent during summer, no water otherwise"</p><p><br /></p><p>Intermittent is nice, clean tag without overly complicated syntax and it should stay this way.</p><p><br /></p><p>One may easily invent new tags to properly tag such detail.<br /></p> </body>
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