<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">The lagoon "canals" are connected to both rivers and the city "canals" in the sense that the lagoon "canals" are often the continuation of rivers or city "canals".</div><div>Two Examples:</div><ul><li>Fiume (River) Dese (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/27658040">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/27658040</a>) and Canale Dese (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/398995928">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/398995928</a>)</li><li>Rio dei Giardini (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/171899879">https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/171899879</a>) is a single way that is part canal and part nautical channel.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, 13:18 Martin Koppenhoefer, <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 1. Jul 2018, at 11:39, Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">voschix@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> No, my question was not about the canali in Venice, which are essentially waterways between islands that are inhabited.<br>
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still there are some question for those “canals” in Venice: are they “artificial”, or are the islands (as you call them) artificial, or are both in principle natural with some human intervention and maintenance? Maybe some are artificial but most of natural origin? The Canale Grande is a channel or a canal? Wouldn’t it have to be artificial in order to be a canal?<br>
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We don’t tag rivers as canals, although the current bed might have been shaped significantly by human intervention, so I guess man_made vs. natural for waterways is not meant to focus on the details rather than the overall picture<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Martin <br>
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