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<div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>With artificial I meant it is a hole with a plastic foil. Everything except sand is artificial and needs to be maintainer in this region.</div><div><br></div><div>I have been contemplating if these lakes are also used as a reservoir for irrigation myself. However I can't confirm or deny this.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll keep the lake tags then, no pond.<br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: I hope my response to the digest gets filed properly.<br></div><div><br></div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Volker Schmidt <<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com">voschix@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Cc: <br>Bcc: <br>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:49:46 +0200<br>Subject: Re: [Tagging] Lake or Pond<br><div dir="ltr">... or a reservoir, as Warin points out.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 July 2018 at 11:46, Volker Schmidt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:voschix@gmail.com" target="_blank">voschix@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The
description in the (OSM) wiki states: "A pond: a body of standing
water, man-made in most cases, that is usually smaller than a lake."</div></div></blockquote><div>This definition is different from the Wikipedia definition: <br></div><div>"
A <b>pond</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_water" title="Body of water" target="_blank">body</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_stagnation" title="Water stagnation" target="_blank">standing water</a>, either natural or artificial, that is usually smaller than a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake" title="Lake" target="_blank">lake</a>
"</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>What are your thoughts?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Our wiki is misleading <br></div><div>
<div>The "thing" in the Mapillary photo is a lake, not a pond, regardless of what the OSM wiki says.</div><div>It's too large for a pond</div>
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